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Friday 25 July 2014 • 27 Ramadan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6137 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Gaza school attack claims 15 Emir receives Libyan FM Ban condemns Israeli shelling of UN-run shelter; toll hits 800

GAZA: Gazan authorities said courtyard of the school near the Israeli forces shelled a shel- apparent impact mark of the ter at a UN-run school yester- shell. day, killing at least 15 people Scores of crying families who as the Palestinian death toll in had been living in the school the conflict reached 800 and -turned shelter ran with their attempts at a truce remained children to a hospital where the elusive. victims were being treated a few United Nations Secretary- hundred metres away. General Ban Ki-moon expressed Laila Al Shinbari, a woman horror at the attack on the school who was at the school when it was at Beit Hanoun in the northern shelled, said families had gathered Gaza Strip. in the courtyard expecting to be “Many have been killed, includ- evacuated in a Red Cross convoy. ing women and children, as well as “All of us sat in one place when UN staff,” he said in a statement. suddenly four shells landed on “Circumstances are still our heads... Bodies were on the unclear. I strongly condemn this ground, (there was) blood and The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday met Libyan act.” screams. My son is dead and all Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mohamed Ban later arrived in Cairo my relatives are wounded, includ- Abdul Aziz and his delegation at Al Bahr Palace. Talks dealt with means where he was expected to meet ing my other kids.” of enhancing relations. US Secretary of State John Kerry, A Palestinian mother mourns over the body of her son, Abd Al Karim Al Ashraf Al Qidra, spokesman who has been working the tele- Shibari, at the morgue of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, yesterday. Al for the Gaza Health Ministry, phones to try to broker truce. Shibari was killed after a UN school in the district was hit by an Israeli shell. said about 200 people had been Kerry’s spokesman said the wounded. The director of a local school attack “underscores the was investigating the incident. mark.” A spokesman for the UN hospital said medical centres Eid Al Fitr most need to end violence”. But there Israel Defence Forces (IDF) relief agency said it had tried in around Beit Hanoun were receiv- was no sign of progress on secur- Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner vain to arrange an evacuation of ing the wounded. ing a ceasefire in his four days in said there was a chance the school civilians from the school with the More than 140,000 Palestinians the region. “Gaps remain between had been hit by stray Hamas Israeli army, and noted reports of have fled 17 days of fighting, many the parties,” a senior US official rockets. “It could be errant fire Hamas rockets falling in the area seeking shelter in buildings run by likely on Monday said, adding that Kerry wouldn’t from the IDF or rockets landing at the same time. the UN Relief and Works Agency. stay “for an indefinite amount of from Gaza terrorists but we still Pools of blood lay on the ground AGENCIES DOHA: The first day of Eid other things, will remain open time.” The Israeli military said it don’t know, there’s still a question and on students’ desks in the See also page 5 Al Fitr is most likely to be during Eid Al Fitr holidays, from on Monday, Al Sharq reports, July 27 to August 4, from 8am quoting Qatar Calendar House until noon, according to Qatar (QCH). News Agency. Dr Mohamed bin Abdullah Al QNA cited a ministry statement Ansari, General Manager, QCH, as saying that the Directorate of Algerian plane ‘crashes’ in Mali; search on for 166 said the new moon heralding Traffic, the General Directorate the dawn of the lunar month of of Evidence and Criminal OUAGADOUGOU: The wreck- are hard at work,” he said. Canadians, four Germans and two reasons,” Fabius said. Shawwal will rise at 1.43am on Intelligence will also work from age of an Air Algerie plane miss- Diendiere gave no indication Luxembourg nationals on board. Algerian radio quoted Prime July 28. So July 27 will be the last 8am to noon during Eid holidays. ing since early yesterday with as to what may have caused the The flight had been presumed Minister Abdelmalek Sellal as day of Ramadan. Anticipating that government 116 people on board has been plane to crash. A witness had lost before French President saying the plane dropped off the Eid Al Fitr falls on the first day offices would be closed during Eid found in Mali near the Burkina earlier reported seeing the plane Francois Hollande appeared on radar at Gao, 500km from the of Shawwal. According to Dr Al holidays, a lot of people rushed to Faso border, an army coordina- “falling” in the region. TV to announce: “Everything Algerian border. Ansari, the crescent moon will these departments on Wednesday tor in Ouagadougou said. Flight AH5017, which took off leads us to believe that the plane Mali, Algeria, Niger and France rise for eight minutes at 1.43am and yesterday to get their work “We have found the Algerian from Ouagadougou for Algiers has crashed.” coordinated search efforts under and will set, so it wouldn’t be done. The immigration serv- plane. The wreck has been with 51 French nationals aboard, He said the plane’s Spanish the French-led military interven- visible. ice centre in Abu Hamour, for located... 50km north of the according to Foreign Minister crew had signalled they were tion in Mali, Operation Serval. Saudi Arabia-based news web- instance, witnessed a large turn- Burkina Faso border” in the Laurent Fabius, went missing altering course “due to particu- “Though the aircraft was above site Alqam.com also said the first out of people on Wednesday for Malian region of Gossi, said amid reports of heavy storms, larly difficult weather conditions”. Mali, it was in airspace managed day of Eid Al Fitr was likely to be visa issuance, mostly for family General Gilbert Diendiere of the company sources and officials “Contact was lost with the by the control centre in Niamey in on Monday, citing calculations by members. Burkina Faso army. said. McDonnell Douglas 83 at 1.47 Niger,” an air traffic control said, astronomers. It added that Saudi The rush was so huge at night “At the moment we have no The airline said there were also (local time), a little after the pilots without providing details about authorities though, don’t go by that officials had to close the further information on (the fate 24 Burkinabe, eight Lebanese, said they were diverting from the passengers and the crew. such calculations and hearsay doors after 10pm to prevent peo- of) the passengers but our teams six Algerians, six Spanish, five the route due to meteorological AGENCIES about crescent moon sighting to ple from entering the premises. declare Eid. Qatar Stock Exchange said Eid In Qatar, the Ministry of holidays will be four working days Rush for registration renewals Interior announced that its serv- from July 28 until July 31. Work ice centres that provide visa issu- resumes on August 3. Fuad Masum new ance and renewal services, among THE PENINSULA/QNA President of Iraq BAGHDAD: Kurdish politician Fuad Masum became Iraq’s new president yesterday, in a step Minister approves Independent towards forming a government. Parliament elected Masum, schools’ new academic calendar who served as the first prime minister of Iraq’s autonomous DOHA: The Minister of Education and Higher Education Kurdish region more than two and Secretary-General of Supreme Education Council H E Dr decades ago, by 211 votes to 17. Mohammed bin Abdul Waheed Al Hammadi yesterday issued a UN Secretary-General Ban ministerial decision, adopting the 2014-2015 academic year calen- Ki-moon met Prime Minister dar for Independent schools. Nuri Al Maliki and stressed the Based on the new calendar, the new academic year for staff will start need for a broad-based govern- on August 21, and the deadline for students to enrol will be September 7. ment to save the country from The calendar has also set dates for exams and holidays during the collapse. See also page 8. Light vehicles queuing at the Abu Hamour Technical Inspection Centre yesterday. The facility witnessed a rush academic year. QNA Bahrain oppn groups for inspection for vehicle registration renewals as the deadline expired yesterday. BAHER AMIN JAMIL face suspension MANAMA: Bahrain has asked a court to temporarily suspend 11 erring food outlets shut in Doha, Al Wakra activities of two more opposi- tion groups. DOHA: At least 11 food outlets were Qadeem (Old Airport) Area. and in the run-up to Eid festivities. The ministry asked the court ordered closed by the Doha and Al Wakra The civic body, which is the country’s larg- Inspectors from the municipality, in coop- to stop Justice and Development municipalities as food and health inspectors est, also seized and destroyed huge quantities eration with Community Police, conducted Movement from working for three intensified crackdown as part of prepara- of vegetables and fruits which were found not surprise raids at several food outlets and caf- months “until it rectifies its legal tions for Eid Al Fitr celebrations, the local fit for human consumption. eterias, including those in malls, hypermarkets status in accordance with the Arabic daily Al Arab reported yesterday. Other food outlets shut by the municipality and commercial establishments. law and its own rules” and sus- The Doha Municipality has intensified included one each in Souq Waqif and Al Jasra, The Doha Municipality closed down more pend National Democratic Action crackdown and expanded its campaign area, and two cafeterias in the Industrial Area. than 32 food outlets during the first four Ramadan Timing Society (Waad) for three months especially in the Central Market, inspecting The neighbouring Al Wakra Municipality months of this year for violating laws related until it elects a new secretary- all perishable items, including food, fruits and closed down six food outlets in different parts to food and health standards. Todays Iftar: general. Earlier, the ministry filed vegetables being imported from overseas and under its jurisdiction. Inspectors raided 11,000 shops and detected 06:25pm a lawsuit against the main oppo- sourced from local farms. The outlets were found violating food and 768 violations, of which 23 were related to the Tomorrow’s sition, Al Wefaq National Islamic During inspection and surprise raids, the health regulations and safety standards. food monitoring law and 745 involved violation Imsak: Society, citing legal violations in municipality closed down five food outlets, The daily said the Umm Salal Municipality of commercial rules. 03:22am running its activities. AGENCIES including a supermarket in the Matar Al also stepped up crackdown during Ramadan THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Eid shopping Emir sends cable congratulating Widodo DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday sent cables of congratulations to Joko Widodo on his winning the presidential elections in Indonesia. Emir condoles Saudi king DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa www.swiss-belhotel.com Al Thani yesterday sent cables of condolences to the Custodian Tel of the Two Holy Mosques King Fax Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on the death of Princess Jawaher bint Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Tel A man checks out a dress as shops in Doha witnessed a huge rush of shoppers yesterday ahead of Fax Eid Al Fitr. ABDUL BASIT Emir condoles Algeria president DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tel Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Fax and the Prime Minister and QNRF funds two QU Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday sent cables Tollfree of condolences to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Fax research proposals on the death of an indefinite number of people in a plane crash yesterday. Tel An Air Algerie plane with 116 Projects aim to fight obesity, improve computers people on board crashed in Mali. Fax DOHA: Qatar National He said the majority of the levels among local youth for a Dinner banquet Research Fund (QNRF) has NPRP conditions applied to this further two years. Tel awarded funding to two sci- programme, with a few amend- The objective of this research for envoys held Fax entific proposals from Qatar ments such as requirements project is to address the prob- University. for lead investigators to have lem by promoting healthy die- DOHA: The Ministry of One proposal is from the secured an increased number tary habits in overweight and Foreign Affairs held a dinner field of Information and of publications and that they obese children between the ages banquet at the Diplomatic Club Tel Communications Technology reside in Qatar for the duration of nine and 12, while also devel- yesterday in honour of ambas- Fax (ICT), titled ‘The Garbled of the project. oping their social and emotional sadors, heads of diplomatic Computer: Towards Computing There are also increases ability to accept these changes. missions and consular and rep- www.doha.hilton.com Without Seeing’. 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QNRF, said: “QNRF’s rigorous Abdullah Al Rumaihi, attended The funding was awarded as “The Garbled Computer” peer review process ensures the ceremony along with the aides part of the National Priorities (GC) research project aims at that only top-quality, original of the foreign minister and the Research Program-Exceptional developing a new, secure, com- research projects that address ministry’s heads of departments Proposals (NPRP-EP), which puter model which could pos- the needs of Qatar and which and offices. offers additional resources sibly allow the use of sensitive give Qatar a comparative advan- Al Rumaihi thanked the par- beyond those available under data on untrusted platforms tage in the region are funded. ticipants for accepting the invi- NPRP. without any security risks. “I am confident that the tation, expressing his hope that Tel Dr Abdul Sattar Al Taie, For instance, the GC should awarded research proposals the meeting would be a pleasant Executive Director of QNRF, be able to use standard data will have a big impact on Qatar, gathering during the blessed days Fax said, “The NPRP-EP funding cloud services without reveal- the region and the world whilst of Ramadan. programme gives top research- ing any confidential information making a significant impact in The ambassadors and heads of ers the opportunity to submit or the nature of the data. the field of ICT and medical and diplomatic missions accredited to proposals with exceptional The second award follows the health sciences.” Qatar, on their part, expressed Tel scientific merits and benefits successful evaluation of a one- The QNRF is a centre of their thanks and appreciation Fax to Qatar while aligning with year pilot study from where the Qatar Foundation Research and for the gesture by the Ministry the Qatar National Research research team can now go on Development. of Foreign Affairs. 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Emir receives ambassadors DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met US Ambassador Susan L Ziadeh and Macedonian Ambassador Fuad Hasanovic, who called on him at Al Bahr Palace on the occasion of the expiry of their tenures in Qatar. The Emir conferred the sash of merit on the envoys in recognition of their efforts to develop relations between Qatar and their countries, and wished them success in their future assignments. The ambassadors expressed thanks and appreciation of the Emir and Qatari officials for their cooperation and sup- port, which contributed to the success of their work in the country. QNA SEC, QLC sign training deal Education Above All Leadership training programme will upgrade skills of SEC officials calls for protecting DOHA: The Supreme Education children in Gaza Council (SEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding DOHA: Education Above All infrastructure. Al Fakhoora was (MoU) with Qatar Leadership has called for protecting inno- launched by H H Sheikha Moza Centre (QLC) to develop and cent children and young people bint Nasser to promote access to strengthen capacity-building of from the Israeli military offen- education and as a symbol of pro- the SEC’s leadership. sive in Gaza. test against targeting of educa- The MoU was signed by H E Dr “We must find a way to pro- tional institutions during armed Mohammed bin Abdul Wahed Al tect the innocent children and conflicts. Hammadi, Minister of Education young people who are suffering Education Above All is a and Higher Education and as a direct result of this conflict,” Qatar-based foundation that Secretary General of the Supreme Marcio Barbosa, Chief Executive promotes human, social and eco- Education Council (SEC), and Officer of Education Above All nomic development through qual- Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, Foundation, said in a statement. ity education and other welfare Managing Director and member “All sides should respect inter- programmes and initiatives. of the board of directors of QLC. national humanitarian law and On July 22, the UN Office for Under the agreement, QLC will protect civilians — especially chil- the Coordination of Humanitarian organise a specialised leadership dren — from harm,” Barbosa said. Affairs (OCHA) said that over training programme to upgrade “Education Above All has a 599 people had been killed in the the skills of the Council’s officials long-standing commitment to Israeli military operation in Gaza, to help them achieve the SEC’s the rebuilding of Gaza, espe- 147 of them children. objectives in line with Qatar cially educational infrastructure, More than 100,000 people are National Vision 2030. through the Al Fakhoora pro- estimated to be displaced and tak- Officials from the Supreme Education Council (SEC) and Qatar Leadership Centre during the signing of an agreement “This MoU represents the gramme. Our partners on the ing shelter in 48 UNRWA-run SEC’s largest training plan since on training of SEC officials. ground are conducting immedi- schools. OCHA estimates that its launch, as the Council seeks ate needs assessments to ensure 85 schools being used to host dis- to ensure that its employees “We are pleased that the first “This MoU represents the vision in all fields through part- that we respond effectively and in placed people have been damaged receive the best training courses institutional program to be pro- beginning of joint, strategic coop- nerships with international a timely manner. We have already as a result of their proximity to to promote their skills and vided by QLC is dedicated to edu- eration with the SEC, one of the academic institutions that spe- agreed emergency support from targeted sites. OCHA estimates improve their performance and cation, one of the most important most important and prominent cialise in training and leadership the Al Fakhoora programme that at least 72,000 children have career progression,” said Dr Al sectors in the country, which is a government institutions in the development. for students who have lost their suffered as members of their Hammadi. “This MoU is a prac- key pillar in the empowerment country.” This MoU is the first of its kind homes as a result of the conflict,” families have been killed, suffered tical result of the SEC’s calls to and progress of nations as well Sheikh Abdulla added that between the SEC and QLC. Barbosa said. injury or lost their homes. These invest in education and training, as the cornerstone for any social, since its inception in 2008, QLC The SEC is the first govern- Al Fakhoora has been operat- children will require psychoso- as investing directly in human economic and political evolution had been promoting and devel- ment entity to sign an institu- ing in Gaza since 2010 through cial support to deal with these capital is one of the priorities of and development,” noted Sheikh oping the capacities of national tional agreement with QLC. a number of projects that sup- traumas. the SEC.” Abdulla. leaders to support Qatar’s THE PENINSULA port the territory’s educational THE PENINSULA

QP hosting daily Iftars in Dukhan QIB, VISA launch ‘Win back Sidra works awarded to joint venture DUKHAN: The manage- DOHA: Qatar Foundation The two companies, which hope was awarded in 2008 to the OHL ment and staff of Qatar your purchases’ campaign for Education, Science and to benefit from the experience of International/Contrack (Cyprus) Petroleum’s Dukhan Community Development (QF) the subcontractor companies that Ltd joint venture. Operations have been host- DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank our customers to use their cards has announced that works to had been working on this project, Sidra has three essential mis- ing daily Iftars for the benefit (QIB) is providing its custom- against cash and ensure opti- complete construction of Sidra are expected to begin work at sions: world-class patient care, of the Zekreet community. ers an opportunity to win back mal safety while spending, we Medical and Research Center, the site immediately, QF said in medical education and biomedi- The daily Iftars have been money they spend on purchases are rewarding them by paying located in Education City, have a press release issued yesterday. cal research. When completed, the made possible by donations outside Qatar in a special pro- back what they spend. Further, been awarded to a joint ven- On Tuesday, QF had announced Sidra facilities are expected to set from employees and the con- motion in association with Visa. we have increased the number of ture between Midmac, and that it had terminated the con- new standards in patient care for tribution of Al Waha Company The “International Summer winners for this year to over 100, Consolidated Contractors Group tract for design and construc- women and children in Qatar. and Amwaj Catering Services. Spends” campaign offers 105 cus- as we endeavour to make their SAL (Offshore). tion of the Sidra facilities, which QNA This annual initiative has been tomers the chance to win back up vacation and shopping experience organised for many years now to QR5,000 spent on purchases memorable”. with the support of Ahmad abroad using their Visa cards “QIB, in association with Visa, Saif Al Sulaiti, Operations between July 21 and September is providing customers exclusive Manager-Dukhan Fields. 20, 2014. discounts and offers at many This year, a working commit- All of QIB’s Visa cardholders outlets like hotels, restaurants New diversion on tee under the chairmanship who use their QIB-Visa credit/ and car rentals. As the leading of Mohamed Eid Al Hajri, debit cards for purchases outside Islamic bank in Qatar and the Al Matar Street Administration Supervisor Qatar during the above period region, we strive to offer custom- DOHA: The Public Works at the Integrated Facilities are eligible for the prize draw. ers clear and compelling reasons Authority, Ashghal, has Management Department, col- The 105 lucky winners will to choose QIB as their main announced a new diversion on lected QR147,100 in donations. include 70 Visa Debit card and bank”, he added. the Al Wakra-Doha side of Al Visa Credit card holders and 35 Rahul Joshi, Country Manager Matar Street, starting yester- Minister invited Qatar Airways co-branded card for Qatar at Visa Inc, said: “Visa day. The permanent street will holders who will win the money is delighted to partner with QIB be opened fully in both direc- to Iran meeting as well as the Qmiles they earn to launch an exciting summer tions later. on their purchases. travel promotional campaign that Ashghal will close the current DOHA: The Minister of Supplementary cards will also will give cardholders an opportu- temporary road diversion and Justice H E Dr Hassan be eligible and will be included nity to win back their spending divert traffic to the new diversion Lahdan Saqr Al Mohannadi along with the primary card- on international purchases. as per the map. yesterday received a mes- holder. Only customers with “We believe in rewarding loy- This move is part of the sage from Iranian Foreign cards active at the time of the alty and more than 100 lucky F-Ring road project undertaken Minister Mohammad Javad draw will be eligible for the prize. cardholders will have the oppor- by Ashghal to provide access to Zarif inviting him to the The draw will be held in October tunity to benefit from this pro- Hamad International Airport and 53rd meeting of the Asian- 2014. motion every time they use their a direct link to the south of Doha, African Legal Consultative D Anand, General Manager of Visa-QIB credit or debit card, and to complete infrastructure Organisation, to be held in QIB’s Personal Banking Group, while enjoying the safety and work. Tehran from September 15 to commented: “It’s during the security that all Visa products Ashghal will equip the area 18. Iranian envoy Mohammed travel season when custom- offer.” with all signs needed to direct Javad Asayish handed over ers tend to spend more, book- More details on the scheme are vehicles; and urges all road users the message. ing their airline tickets, hotels, available on QIB’s website (www. to abide by speed limits and traffic THE PENINSULA & QNA car rentals, as well as shopping qib.com.qa). signs to ensure their safety. A map showing the new diversion on Al Matar Street. and buying gifts. To encourage THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM The purpose of Fitr Zakath

very Muslim is required to pay time of payment, and therefore a Muslim Arabs particularly the Bedouins. They Fitr Zakath (Zakatul Fitr) at The purpose of the Fitr Zakath can pay at any of these times. He also did not have their own currency. So if the conclusion of the month of took the view that paying it at differ- the Prophet had prescribed it in money, ERamadan as a token of thank- is to purify those who fast and to ent times gives the poor and needy the he would have caused hardship to them. fulness to God for having enabled him opportunity to benefit from Zakatul Fitr Second, the purchasing power of money to observe fasts. Its purpose is to purify help the poor and needy. and fulfil their needs for longer periods. changes from time to time. For instance, those who fast from any indecent act or In my opinion these differences are the purchasing power of a certain cur- speech and to help the poor and needy. due to taking into consideration both rency sometimes becomes low and other This view is based upon the hadith which the needs of the poor and the opportu- times high, so paying Zakatul Fitr in reads, “The Messenger of Allah, upon nity of attaining the wisdom behind the money makes its value unstable. That whom be peace, enjoined Zakatul Fitr obligation of Zakatul Fitr. Therefore, the is why the Prophet prescribed it with a on those who fast to shield them from most acceptable and practical approach stable measure, that is an amount of food any indecent act or speech, and for the is to apply whichever practice fulfils the which fulfils the needs of one family. For purpose of providing food for the needy. purpose and wisdom behind Zakatul Fitr, one Sa` provides a family with food for It is accepted as Zakah for the one who that is bringing happiness to the poor on a whole day. pays it before the `Eid prayer, and it is the day of `Eid and giving their children Sa` is a certain measure which equals sadaqah for the one who pays it after a chance to enjoy this day as others do. 4 mudds (a mudd equals a handful of an the prayer.” Al Qaradawi comments on average man). The contemporary equiva- this hadith by saying that there are two TYPES OF FOOD, SUBSTITUTES lent weights of Sa` differs according to purposes: one is related to the individual; The jurists hold different views as to the stuff which is weighted. For example for completion of his fast and compen- the types of food which must be given as a Sa` of wheat equals 2176 grams, a Sa` sation for any shortcomings in his acts Zakatul Fitr. The Hanbali view is that of rice is 2520 grammes, a Sa` of beans or speech. The other is related to soci- the kinds of food which can be given are equals 2250 grammes etc. Therefore some ety; for the spreading of love and hap- five: dates, raisins, wheat, barley, and dry scholars are of the view that the criterion piness among its members, particularly cottage cheese. Imam Ahmad is reported should be the measure not the weight for the poor and needy, during the day of to have said that any kind of staple grain there are kinds of food which are heavier `Eid.It also purifies one’s soul from such or dates are also permissible, even if the than others. But I think this is the case if shortcomings as the adoration of prop- above five types are available. The Malikis the equivalent weight of a certain kind of erty, and from miserliness. Furthermore, and Shafi`is are of the view that it is per- food is not known. If there is no available it purifies one’s property from the stain missible to give any kind of food as long measure or weight with the person, then of unlawful earnings. It is also a cure for as it is the main staple in that particular he should pay 4 mudds. Nowadays, it is ailments. The Prophet, peace and bless- region or the main food of the person. As not that problem because ministries of ings be upon him, said, “It would be better for the Hanafis, they permit paying the religious affairs in Muslim countries and that you treat your patients with charity.” value of Zakatul Fitr in money. mosques and Islamic centres in Western In addition, it provides for the needs Ibn Al Qayyim highlighted these dif- countries announce the value of Zakatul of the poor and the indigent and relieves ferent viewpoints and concluded that the Fitr every year. Anyhow, this is the oblig- them from having to ask others for char- Prophet, peace and blessings be upon atory amount which every Muslim should ity on the day of `Eid. The Prophet (peace him, prescribed Zakatul Fitr as one Sa` pay. It is better and recommended that and blessings be upon him) said, “Fulfil of dates, barley, raisins or dry cottage one pays an extra amount, particularly their need on this day (i.e., the day of cheese. These were the main staple kinds for those who are wealthy, for they will Eid)” who lives until the sun sets on the last that payment cannot be delayed merely of food in Madinah. As for people of other be rewarded for it. day of Ramadan. Accordingly, whoever for the reason that it is a type of Zakah. territories, what they should pay is one WHO MUST PAY FITR ZAKATH dies before the sun sets on the last day Thus, any delay is a sin and is analogous sa’ of their staple grain, such as corn, ITS PAYMENT IN MONEY Zakatul Fitr is incumbent on every of Ramadan is exempted. Likewise, a to delaying one’s prayers without an rice, etc. But if their main staple food As it is mentioned earlier, the Hanafis free Muslim who possesses one Sa` of person who has a baby on the last day acceptable excuse. is other than grain, such as milk, meat, permitted the payment of Zakatul Fitr dates or barley which is not needed as of Ramadan should pay Zakatul Fitr for Anyway, the founders of the four fish, etc., then they should pay one Sa` in money. This is the view of Al Thawri, basic food for himself or his family for the baby. The majority of jurists argue accepted Islamic legal schools agree that of that particular food. This is the opin- Al Hasan Al Basri, and Umar ibn Abd Al the duration of one day and night. Every that we should not pay Zakatul Fitr Zakatul Fitr is not nullified simply by ion of the majority of scholars and is the Aziz. However, the other three schools free Muslim must pay Zakatul Fitr for for an embryo. But Imam Ahmad holds failure to pay it on its due time. If it is not preferred point of view, since it achieves did not permit this. Their argument is himself, his wife, children, and servants. that Zakatul Fitr is also obligatory for paid before `Eid prayer, one is not exempt the purpose of fulfilling the needs of the that the Prophet did not do so and hence This is the opinion of Imam Malik, Al an embryo, because it is permissible to from it. It becomes a debt payable even poor on the day of Eid with the staple its payment in money contradicts the Shafi`i, and Ahmad. Imam Abu Hanifah, assign property to an embryo by means after death. The heirs must not distribute food of their region. Sunnah of the Prophet. But some con- however, said that it is only obligatory for of a will. the deceased’s legacy before payment of temporary scholars support the Hanafi one who possesses a nisab (a minimum the deceased’s unpaid Zakatul Fitr. THE CALCULATION view since this is easier nowadays for the amount of property) after fulfilling the WHEN IS IT DUE? Most scholars believe that it is permis- The amount of Zakatul Fitr, as we payer particularly in cities where peo- costs of his house, servant, horse, and The jurists agree that Zakatul Fitr is sible to pay Zakatul Fitr a day or two referred earlier, is one Sa` of food. There ple use only money for dealings. Among weapon. due at the end of Ramadan. They differ, before Eid. Ibn `Umar reported that the is consensus on this amount among the them are Sheikh Shaltut, Al Ghazali, and Al Khattabi explained that Zakatul however, about the exact time. Al-Thawri, Messenger, upon whom be peace, ordered scholars with regard to all types of food Al Qaradawi who mentioned earlier the Fitr was obligatory for all Muslims, not Ishaq, Malik (in one of two reports), and them to pay Zakatul Fitr before the peo- except wheat and raisins. As for these two two reasons for which the Prophet did only those who possess the nisab stating Al Shafii (in one of his two opinions), are ple went out to perform the `Eid prayer. types the Shafi`is, Malikis and Hanbalis not prescribe it in money. He also stated that this is the view of the majority of of the opinion that it is due at the sun- Nafi‘ reported that `Umar used to pay it agree that the prescribed amount is one that the purpose of Zakatul Fitr is to scholars. He said, “In essence, the ration- set of the night of breaking the fast, for a day or two before the end of Ramadan. Sa`, however the Hanafis say it is suf- fulfil the needs of the poor and this is ale behind it was stated to be the purifi- this is when the fast of Ramadan ends. However, scholars hold different opinions ficient to pay half Sa` from wheat and achieved also by payment in money and cation of one who fasts from any indecent However, Al Layth, the Hanafi school, when a longer time period is involved. they differed with regard to raisins. After that in most cases and most countries act or speech. And since every Muslim Al Shafii (in his other opinion), and the According to Abu Hanifah, it is permis- discussing the arguments of these two the payment in money is more useful to needs this, it is therefore obligatory upon second report of Malik say that Zakatul sible to pay it even before Ramadan so opinions Al Qaradawi reached the follow- the poor. He also mentioned that when every fasting Muslim, whether rich or Fitr is due at the start of Fajr (dawn) long as you make the intention of Zakah. ing conclusion: wheat was not a common the Prophet prescribed it from food, it poor, who possesses one Sa` in excess of on the day of Eid because it is an act of Al Shaf‘i holds that it is permissible to do food amongst them during the time of the was easy for the payer and useful for the his main staple food for the duration of worship connected with `Eid, so the time so at the beginning of Ramadan. Malik Prophet so he did not prescribe one Sa` of recipient during that time. But nowadays one day and night. This is because so long of its payment should not be before `Eid and Ahmad (in his well-known view) it as he did with the other types of food. to pay it in food is not useful for the poor as the essential rationale is shared by all just as sacrifice on the Eid of Adha. maintain that it is permissible to pay it As for those of the Companions of the because he cannot make use, for instance, Muslims, then they also share the same These two different views acquire only one or two days in advance. Prophet who prescribed half Sa` of wheat of wheat or dates unless he sells them obligation.” relevance if a baby is born after sunset Al Qaradawi explains the reasons for instead of one Sa` of barely or dates like with any price, generally low, to buy his Al Qaradawi also asserts the majority but before dawn on the day of `Eid; the these differences in opinion by saying Mu`awiyah and other Companions, he needs with the money. view when he says, “It is a virtuous wis- question then is whether Zakatul Fitr is that the Prophet, peace and blessings be views that they did so by analogy, since Al Qaradawi excluded the times of dom of Islam that it makes this Zakah obligatory for the baby or not. In accord- upon him, used to pay Zakatul Fitr after the value of wheat was more than those famines where the payment of food is obligatory not only on the rich, but also ance with the first view, it is not, since Fajr prayer on the day of `Eid but before of other types of food which were equal. more useful for the recipients and said upon nearly every Muslim, for you can the birth took place after the prescribed the `Eid prayer for the reason that the But according to their opinion, he says, that the criterion is the benefit of the hardly find a person who does not possess time, while according to the second view, Muslim community was still small and the value should be considered and taken poor so if food proves to be more useful one Sa` of food above his main staple food it is obligatory because the birth took limited in number. During the time of as the criterion and this will cause insta- as in times of famines and catastrophes, for the duration of one day and night. The place within the prescribed space of time. the Companions the payment was made bility and confusion for it changes from then its payment in kind is better. But if wisdom behind this obligation, therefore, one or two days before the `Eid. After place to another and from time to time. money is more useful, then its payment is to prepare the poor to practice benev- TIME OF PAYMENT the spread of Islam the jurists permit- He mentioned that in Pakistan the value in money is better. olence and feel the dignity and honour It is not permissible to delay giving ted its payment from the beginning and of wheat is less than that of dates, then Nowadays, if we consider the condi- of giving in charity. Allah described the Zakatul Fitr after the day of `Eid (i.e. middle of Ramadan so as to ensure that how should we pay of it half the amount tion in the Muslim world in general and believers with these words, “Those who one may give it up to the time of the the Zakatul Fitr reached its beneficiar- (i.e. Sa`) that we should pay of dates? He that of Muslims in the West in particu- spend (freely), whether in prosperity, or `Eid prayer). However, there are some ies on the day of `Eid, thereby avoiding also mentioned that nowadays raisins are lar we will discover that the second view in adversity…” Thus if we contemplate on jurists who think that it is permissible to the possibility that the process of dis- more expensive than wheat and dates. The is more convenient with the spirit of this wisdom, we will not find it strange delay giving it even after the `Eid prayer. tribution would delay reception of the only solution for these problems, he says, Islamic legislation and the present con- that the needy pay this Zakah, because it The founders of the four schools of Fiqh payment after the day of `Eid. After is to regard Sa` as the criterion and basis. dition of Muslims. As we will see later does not cause them to suffer any loss. He hold the first opinion, but Ibn Sirin and explaining the different views regarding Al Qaradawi explains why the Prophet when Muslims living in the West decide will pay only his Zakah and then receive al-Nakha‘i say that its payment can be the time of payment, Sheikh `Atiyyah appointed Sa` as the measure and did not to transfer their Zakah funds or some of the Zakah of various people.” delayed. Ahmad says: “I hope that there Saqr stated that these differences of prescribe it in money saying that in his them to needy Muslims in Muslim coun- Moreover, we have to bear in mind that is no harm [in delaying the payment].” opinion among the jurists justify some opinion there are two reasons for this: tries, then the payment in money is more Zakatul Fitr is obligatory for everyone Ibn Raslan says that there is a consensus leniency for Muslims in regard to the First, money was still rare among the convenient. www.islamonline.net

morning, Muslims bathe and put carrying Prayer rugs and glorify- Muslims stand shoulder to shoul- him) to travel to and from the on their best clothes in prepara- ing God. His or her words ringing der and give thanks to God not Eid praying place using different Celebration of Eid tion for the special Eid Prayer. It out – “God is great, there is none only for the joy of Ramadan, but routes. This and the fact of the has become customary to wear worthy of worship but God; God also for the countless blessings Prayer being held in open areas new clothes in celebration of Eid. is great, Praise be to Him.” He bestows upon us every day. are done to show the strength of of Ramadan. Muslims celebrate The Prophet Muhammad (peace Before the Prayer begins a spe- Before the Prayer begins a spe- the Muslims, to induce pride on BY AISHA STACEY because God has allowed them to be upon him) said: “God is beau- cial charity is to be offered. cial charity is to be offered. It is one’s faith, and to celebrate the participate in and complete the tiful, and He loves that which is As Muslim families begin to called zakatul Fitr. Each adult praises of Allah openly. he end of Ramadan ush- month of fasting and spiritual beautiful” (Muslim, 612) congregate at the Prayer place, Muslim, who is financially able, is The actual Eid Al Fitr is one ers in one of two major reflection. Muslims celebrate the Eid is a time to display the the praising of God is joined with expected to offer a small amount day, but in many Muslim coun- celebrations in the fact that God, in His infinite mercy favors of God. It is an act of wor- words of congratulations such as, of money from which foodstuff tries, businesses and offices may TIslamic calendar; a day and wisdom, may accept their ship to eat a few dates before set- “Eid Mubarak” (A celebration is bought and distributed to the close for up to a weekMuslims in of festivities called Eid Al Fitr. In deeds and reward them. ting out for the prayer in emphasis full of blessings) and Happy Eid, poor. Ramadan was a time when different countries and different Arabic ‘’Eid’’ means something …that you should complete the of the fact that the fasting month as well as prayers for each other, Muslims attempt to give gener- families celebrate in different which returns and is repeated number [of fasting days] and that has indeed ended, and thus, fast- “May Allah accept our righteous ously and the celebration at the ways. There are gatherings of every certain period of time. you should exalt the greatness of ing on the day of Eid is forbidden, works”. Children dart about in conclusion of Ramadan is con- family and friends for breakfast, The word Eid, however, has Allah for His having guided you and as it is a day of celebration and anticipation of gifts and feasts, ducted with the same spirit of gen- brunch or lunch. It is an occasion evolved to mean a festivity. The that you may give thanks. (2:185) remembrance of God. older people reflect on the suc- erosity, ensuring that all Muslims for visits, greetings, love and good word ‘’fitr’’ is the root of the The Eid (or celebration) is not The Eid Prayer is to be held cess of Ramadan and the magnif- have the opportunity to enjoy the wishes. It is a time to heal lost word ‘’iftar’’ (breaking the fast) carried out in the way you might outdoors in a large open ground. icence of God. A quiet hush then day with feasting and celebration. bonds, make amends, and revi- and denotes the end of the fast- expect. After the previous night’s In inclement weather, or due to spreads across the crowd as the At the end of the Prayer, the talize relationships. A Muslim ing month. It would be wrong to moon sighting, indicating that a lack of adequate arrangements, Eid Prayer begins. congregation disperses and trav- is encouraged to celebrate by assume that Muslims celebrate the the blessed month of Ramadan Eid Prayer is sometimes per- It differs slightly from the nor- els home or onto celebrations via glorifying God, and reminded fact that they no longer have to is over, Muslims wake for the formed in the mosques. mal Prayers, and although it is a different route. Muslims try to that the ability to love life and fast, as Muslims indeed are sad- dawn Prayer and the beginning Muslims can be seen walking not obligatory, it is highly rec- emulate the guidance of Prophet to celebrate, is only one of God’s dened by the passing of the month of a very special day. In the early and driving to the praying area, ommended that Muslims attend. Muhammad (peace be upon bounties. FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Gaza truce talks very complicated, says US Palestinian death toll rises to 788

WASHINGTON: Diplomatic initiative which was based on a —including women and children, talks to end the fighting in Gaza 2012 truce which was violated as well as UN staff.” He said he as civilian casualties mount are almost immediately after it was was “appalled” by the news and “very complicated,” a US official put into place. “strongly condemned” the attack admitted yesterday, refusing Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, which he said “underscores the to predict how long they could who is based in Qatar, has rejected imperative for the killing to stop take. that proposal saying the Islamic — and to stop now”. US Secretary of State John group which controls Gaza will Washington said it was “deeply Kerry has been in Cairo since not agree to a ceasefire until it saddened and concerned about Monday trying to persuade Israel has firm guarantees that the the tragic incident”, without and Hamas to lay down their long-time Israeli blockade of the explicitly blaming its ally Israel arms in the 17-day war in which impoverished Strip will be lifted. for the shelling. some 788 Palestinians have been Hamas is blacklisted by Israel “We again urge all parties to killed along with 35 Israelis, most and the United States as a terror- redouble their efforts to protect of them soldiers. ist organisation and conducts its civilians,” State Department The top US diplomat visited negotiations through intermedi- spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in both Israel and West Bank on aries such as Turkey and Qatar. Cairo, where Secretary of State Wednesday to meet with Israeli Kerry spoke three times by John Kerry is trying to negotiate and Palestinian leaders, but his phone with Turkish Foreign a ceasefire. efforts have so far failed to pro- Minister Ahmet Davutoglu yes- Speaking after a meeting duce any concrete results. terday as well as with his Qatari with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Asked if it might be possible to and Jordanian counterparts and Palestinian president Mahmoud agree a ceasefire before the end Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Abbas said Hamas should agree to Palestinians inspect the rubble of a destroyed house after Israeli air strikes in Al Tufah neighbourhood in eastern of the holy month of Ramadan Netanyahu. the Egyptian ceasefire plan. Gaza City yesterday. due early next week, deputy But analysts say a power vac- “After that, we will discuss State Department spokeswoman uum in the Middle East, par- what would happen in the future,” Marie Harf said it was “a tough ticularly Egypt’s lost of influence he said. issue.” amid its own political upheavals, There was no let-up to the vio- Gaza conflict stirs violence “We’re on the ground working is hampering his efforts. lence in Gaza, however, with most through these issues, but it is very US deputy national security of yesterday’s 93 victims killed in complicated,” she told reporters. adviser Tony Blinken has called and around Khuzaa, a flashpoint “I don’t have predictions to for an agreement that would ulti- area east of Khan Yunis which has in West Bank; one killed make for how long this will take, mately result in the demilitarisa- been the site of intensive fighting but I think all you have to do is tion of the Gaza Strip to prevent since Tuesday. look at what’s happening on the further crises. But the biggest single strike was RAMALLAH: The main in Husan, “because of the scene since the beginning of the Israeli ground to see that this needs to Fifteen Palestinians were killed at the school in the north, where street through the village of of the massacre in Gaza. People’s bombardment of Gaza. happen as soon as possible.” yesterday when an Israeli shell the UN agency for Palestinian Husan, just outside Bethlehem, emotion erupted and they wanted Sitting in a barbershop, She refused to get into specific slammed into a UN shelter where refugees (UNRWA) said it had is still littered with rocks and to express that. [Israeli] settlers Mohammed Qaraeen, 29, says details of what the framework hundreds of civilians had taken been trying to coordinate with the black, burned patches of often come here, they shop here the young men - shabab - who of any eventual ceasefire might refuge. the army over the evacuation of tarmac that mark the impact of and nobody bothers them”. The lead the violent protests against look like, other than to say that UN chief Ban Ki-Moon civilians, without success. molotov cocktails. clashes happened “just because Israel are fulfilling a role that the US was backing an Egyptian said: “Many have been killed AFP Ibrahim Hamamra stands of the incident that happened in the Palestinian leadership has outside a shuttered grocery store Gaza”. shunned. “Abu Mazen and the where less than 24 hours earlier Ibrahim says the violence began, PA don’t want to see clashes, they his brother Mohammed Al Aaraj as so often during Ramadan, after don’t want to see Hamas throw- (25), was shot dead by an Israel evening prayers when a group of ing rockets. Here in Jerusalem Defence Forces (IDF) sniper, his Israeli soldiers stationed them- we support Gaza and we don’t family claim, as a riot raged nearby. selves at the entrance to the vil- want to see Hamas negotiate with The IDF said that Mohammed was lage outside the mosque. A couple Israel,” he says. shot with a rubber bullet. of dozen young men began throw- Outside his grocery store a There were violent clashes with ing stones, and the violence esca- few doors down, Sameer Sarhan Israeli troops on Tuesday night lated. He says his brother, a father agrees, even though the clashes as thousands of people across the of three, had not been involved in regularly take place outside West Bank took to the streets to protests before. “[Mohammed] is his shop. “Our businesses are protest over the deaths of scores a store owner. He has no time for impacted, but let’s not forget the of civilians in fierce fighting this nonsense.” people in Gaza. They have no food, between Israel and Hamas fight- Hostility towards the no water, they are seeing whole ers at Shujai’iya, in Gaza City. Palestinian Authority, and par- families wiped out. I wish I could The protest followed weeks ticularly the President, Mahmoud take all of my merchandise and of violence in the West Bank, Abbas, runs deep in Husan, as give it to the people in Gaza.” including clashes in Hebron 10 elsewhere in the West Bank. In Husan, close to the funeral days ago in which a man was Residents see the man known as tent that has been erected out- killed. A mass rally was held Abu Mazen as a collaborator with side the Hamamra family home, in Ramallah yesterday when Israel. “For us, Abu Mazen does Mohammed and Ibrahim are Palestinians marched from the not represent the Palestinians, he far less supportive of the clashes city to the Qalandia checkpoint is a partner of Egyptian President between villagers and the Israelis and on through Jerusalem to the Sisi and Israel in the crime that is than they are of the Palestinian mili- Al Aqsa mosque. being committed against us,” says tants’ battle with Israel in Gaza. “My Although there is often a gulf Mohammed’s cousin, also called cousin was killed to send a mes- between Palestinians in the West Mohammed, 50. sage to the whole town - that this Bank and those in Gaza, the scale It is not only the West Bank is what will happen to you if you of death and devastation in the that has seen violent unrest let your kids throw rocks. But this Gaza conflict is having a signifi- since the beginning of the Gaza will make people violent. It will make cant impact here. A general strike war, or indeed earlier. The riots people eager to seek revenge,” says called the day after the battle in that engulfed Shuafat, in East Mohammed. “We hope this situa- Shujai’iya was widely observed, Jerusalem, in the wake of the tion will calm down,” says Ibrahim, and the Palestinian Authority murder of Mohammed Abu “We don’t want to lose our children ordered three days of mourning Khdeir, 16, in July were some of or our loved ones. Mohammed was for the casualties. the worst in the city since the sec- our youngest brother. Everyone Ibrahim, his eyes red and face ond intifada. Clashes in Silwan, loved him. Everyone is devastated. A Palestinian man holds a girl, injured in Israeli shelling at a UN-run school sheltering Palestinian refugees, at a pale, says feelings were running a stone’s throw from the walls It was so unnecessary.” hospital in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. high on the day of the protest of the Old City, have intensified GUARDIAN NEWS US airlines, others resume flights to Israel

WASHINGTON: American, recommendation for airlines to aviation in the wake of last week’s Civil Aviation had yet to lift its Russian and some European stop flights to Tel Aviv, saying it downing of a Malaysia Airlines recommendation. Germany’s larg- carriers resumed flights to had revised its Wednesday deci- Boeing 777 over Ukraine that est carrier Lufthansa said it was Israel yesterday after a two-day sion “on the basis of information killed all 298 people on board. extending its freeze on flights to freeze amid fears that rocket provided by the Civil Aviation Even as European and Israel through Thursday, as was fire from Gaza was endanger- Authority of Israel and following American authorities gave the Swiss Air. ing commercial air traffic into coordination with the (FAA).” green light for resumption of “SWISS and Lufthansa Group Tel Aviv. But some European Iberia, Alitalia and SAS were flights to Israel, the Association suspend flight operations to and airlines continued to suspend among the European airlines of European Airlines called for an from Tel Aviv for a further 24 their flights, out of security resuming Israel service Thursday. “urgent” debate on airspace secu- hours,” Swiss Air said on Twitter concerns around Ben Gurion Russia’s second-largest airline rity guidelines after the Malaysia at 1800 GMT yesterday. International Airport. Transaero said it was resuming Airlines tragedy. US intelligence Yesterday flights to Israel by Officials in Washington lifted flights to Israel Thursday, two officials say the passenger jet was Polish carrier Lot, Finland’s a formal ban on American flights days after suspending traffic shot down by a surface-to-air mis- FINNAIR, Air Berlin, and oth- to Israel late on Wednesday, and along with other major airlines sile, allegedly fired by pro-Russian ers remained suspended, while flights by carriers Delta, United over the security concerns. rebels in a separatist-controlled Turkish Airlines and Easy Jet and US Airways, as well as Air Russia’s largest carrier Aeroflot area of eastern Ukraine. were set to resume their Israel Canada, were landed yesterday. announced its resumption of In addition to the crises in flights today. “We have consulted extensively Israel flights late Wednesday. Ukraine and Israel, other recent Austrian Airlines, which car- with the US government, as well Previous conflicts in Gaza, aviation tragedies have set the ries up to 700 passengers between as our own people on the ground which is under assault by Israeli commercial airlines industry Vienna and Tel Aviv every day, in Tel Aviv... and we believe it’s forces trying to halt Palestinian on edge, notably the crash of a said it was cancelling its Israel safe to fly and that’s why we’re rocket fire, have not endangered Taiwanese turboprop plane dur- flights through at least today. recommencing our flights,” a civilian flights in Israeli airspace. ing stormy weather Wednesday While the rocket attack near United Airlines spokesperson But after a Hamas rocket that killed 48 people, and the Ben Gurion airport raised fears said. But the Federal Aviation struck a neighborhood to the disappearance of an Air Algerie that a commercial flight could Administration, while lifting its north of the Ben Gurion airport, plane yesterday over Mali with be struck, US Secretary State ban, warned of a “very fluid situ- aviation agencies recommended 110 passengers aboard. John Kerry did land in Israel ation” amid intense fighting in the a suspension of flights while the Air France said it was main- on Wednesday, and the State Gaza Strip. risk was assessed. taining its suspension of flights Department said that his team The European Aviation The cancellations highlighted to Israel “until further notice,” was “very comfortable” despite A wounded Palestinian woman runs in the street after Israeli air strikes in Safety Agency lifted its own increased fears for passenger saying the Directorate General of the rocket threat. AFP Al Tufah neighbourhood. FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ven if Israel claims complete victory in its war against Hamas, it’s certain to lose another one, which is equally important: the battle for the support of the Einternational community, especially the West. The A reminder of what has clearest indication of this impending loss has come from an important person — British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. Hammond was speaking for his continent when he said that Western nations are losing sympathy for Israel as been happening in Mali casualties mount from its military operation in Gaza. Speaking on his first official visit to the region since taking over as BY ADAM TAYLOR Britain’s foreign affairs chief, he said: “As this campaign goes Ansar Dine, began to emerge as the nearly 78 percent of the vote. Foreign on and the civilian casualties in Gaza mount, Western public dominant force in the north. By May observers were surprised by the rela- opinion is becoming more and more concerned and less and he reported disappearance of 2012, Ansar Dine had taken over the tively peaceful way the elections were less sympathetic to Israel. That’s simply a fact and I have Air Algerie-operated Flight UN heritage site of Timbuktu, and handled: The Washington Post’s edito- to tell that to my Israeli counterparts.” The message was AH5017 en route from began destroying Islamic tombs. An rial board expressed some skepticism, blunt and unusual, if only Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Burkina Faso to Algiers has ultra-strict brand of Islamic law was but said that the election could be a step led to renewed interest in imposed as the country was virtually towards stability for the country. Netanyahu would listen. Tone troubled nation that the plane may split in two, with smoking and alcohol What happened recently In another significant development, several Canadian have been flying over before it disap- banned in the north and women fac- After the election, Mali generally scholars criticized their government for taking a decisively peared: Mali. ing strict restrictions on their move- faded from the headlines, and in January pro-Israel position, saying it “discredits Canada.” In an open It’s understandable. Air traffic con- ment and dress. Even music, one of 2014, 1,000 French soldiers were still in letter published in the leading Canadian daily Globe and Mail, trollers lost track of the flight 50 min- Mali’s greatest cultural traditions, was the country, with their focus had largely they said they “are profoundly perturbed by the unbalanced utes after take off, and the flight’s path silenced. Arab fighters from al-Qaida in shifted to an anti-terrorism role. Earlier would have taken it directly over Mali’s the Islamic Maghreb were reported to this month, France’s defense minister and partisan position adopted by the Canadian government still-volatile north. Given the recent be leading the operation. announced that the French military and federal political parties regarding the current violence in events in Ukraine, speculation is rife, It took the international commu- operation in Mali had “fulfilled its mis- Gaza.” Importantly, all these voices of dissent are coming after though the Islamist militias operating nity some time to react. The Economic sion” and would be shifted into a anti- huge protests in several European in Mali’s north are not believed to have Community of West African States terrorism force for northwest Africa, capitals against the Israeli the technology required to bring down (ECOWAS) agreed to send troops in while Malian officials and Tuareg sepa- Israel will aggression, participation in which a plane flying at a November, and the United Nations agreed ratists began talks in Algiers in the hope high altitude. Even to troops in December. However, when of forming a lasting peace in the north. lose this has surpassed previous records. so, if the plane is in the central town of Konna was captured However, the north still saw spo- As the death toll of Palestinians The reported Mali, it may be a in January 2013, it was Mali’s old colonial radic violence, with Tuareg rebels war because soars in the conflict, those who big complication in masters, the French, who took the lead. fighting government troops again and disappearance support for the blindly support Israel are forced to any investigation. A successful intervention? Islamists targeting French troops and rethink their positions as ghastly of Air Algerie- Mali’s Islamist France announced that it was sending UN peacekeepers in suicide attacks. In insurgency was big troops to Mali on January 11, 2013. The many ways, France’s redeployment of and gory images of innocent operated Flight Jewish state news in early 2013, country, spurred on by its involvement in its troops was less an acknowledgement in the West is children and women dying in the AH5017 en route but after a French the ousting of Libyan dictator Moammar that the problems in Mali were over, and shelling are beamed on television from Burkina Faso military interven- Gadhafi and its old colonial links to Mali, more a sign that it viewed the Islamist declining fast. channels across the world. In this to Algiers has led tion and successful claimed a moral obligation to act. “At threat in northwest Africa as a tran- charged atmosphere, not everybody election, it largely stake is the very existence of the Malian snational problem. The recent surge of is ready to buy the lame Israeli to renewed interest faded from view. state,” President Francois Hollande said attacks by Boko Haram may show they in one troubled Here’s a reminder in a televised address, vowing to stay are right. Many of Nigeria’s Islamists argument that it’s defending itself. The disproportionate of what happened, involved until the battle was won. had cut their teeth fighting in Mali Palestinian deaths, the UN condemnation and the UN human nation that the plane and has been hap- Within days, warplanes were hitting before returning home. “Niger’s secu- rights chief’s statement that Israel could be committing war may have been pening, in one of Islamist troops, and Mali’s army retook rity, West Africa’s security is France’s crimes have portrayed Palestinians as the hapless victims of flying over before it Africa’s poorest Timbuktu and other northern cities security,” Hollande told French person- nations. with the help of newly re-aligned Tuareg nel stationed in Niger during a tour of this conflict, and Israel as a mindless villain which considers disappeared: Mali. itself above all international law. How Mali’s cri- rebels. Despite the neo-colonial impli- West Africa last week. sis began cations, many of Mali’s citizens were The disappearance of Air Algerie The Netanyahu government thinks that victory demands In March 2012, a group of officers in supportive of the French intervention, Flight AH5017 is a particularly difficult the killing of as many Palestinians as possible. Around 750 the Malian government staged a coup and the French were credited with help- situation for Hollande: French media is people have died so far. Yesterday, more than 15 were killed that toppled the democratically elected ing Mali’s government push the rebels reporting that 51 of the passengers on and 200 injured in a strike on a UN school in Gaza crowded government of back. The U.N. set up a peacekeeping board were French citizens. Col. Gilles with hundreds of displaced civilians. A British newspaper Amadou Toumani Touré. With the force, 12,600-strong, a few months later, Jarron, a French Army spokesman, has capital in chaos, a growing insurgency, and the Pentagon also deployed a small told The New York Times that two two wrote that the international scrutiny of Israel’s assault has featuring both Tuareg rebels and armed number of troops to the country. The French fighter jets are now searching intensified with this missile attack. Islamists, began to capture key towns government also received billions in for the plane. A ceasefire still looks a bit distant, though efforts are on in Mali’s northern territory of Azawad, international aid. Taylor writes about foreign affairs for to find one. But as this war ends, Israel will move closer to a and the Tuareg rebels soon declared an Under pressure from France and The Washington Post. Originally from pariah status in the world, with vital support which the Jewish independent state. other countries, Mali held elections London, he studied at the University of state has taken for granted until now slipping away from As the fighting continued, however, in July 2013, and in a subsequent run- Manchester and Columbia University. the Islamists, in particular the group off, Ibrahim Boubakar Keita won with WP-BLOOMBERG under its feet• The other side Quote of China taps the Latin world the day

T A time when the United personal diplomacy in the southern Kirchner. Similarly, the $2.3 billion order is up for a change. States is mired in addressing hemisphere, signing landmark deals credit line for Venezuela in return for China’s tapping of South America conflicts, its contemporaries with Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and its crude and other products will go a is in continuation of its policy to cul- Aare busy on a parallel path of Cuba in sectors such as oil sales, long way in furthering Chinese influ- tivate new horizons of soft power economic diplomacy. infrastructure development and pref- ence in the region. Last but not the corners. After having explored Africa, Many have been The recently held Brics summit erential trade concessions. least, the desire on the part of both where China has become the biggest in Brazil and the big-ticket initiatives Beijing’s efforts to buoy and Russia and China to stand firm behind overseas investor and stakeholder in killed — including that Russia and China had taken in strengthen Argentina’s economy Cuba’s rise as an independent and extracting natural resources, Beijing the backyard of America confirm the since it defaulted in 2001 had been a self-sufficient entity, in the backdrop wants to consolidate its power pin- women and phenomenon that multipolarity is just corner stone of its involvement in that of pressing American sanctions, is nacle right in the heartland of the round the corner. Close on the heels part of the world. Thus, a $11 billion genuine leadership. So is the initiative Americas. Beijing’s art of making children, as well of Moscow reassuring Latin American currency swap with Argentina could to launch a development bank with a inroads with the socialist allies without as UN staff in states that they form a fundamental not have come at a more opportune seed capital of $100 billion, sending mincing a single political statement is part of its foreign policy, Chinese time for the embattled government across message to the US and the epoch-making diplomacy. Israeli shelling. President Xi Jinping launched his of President Cristina Fernandez de Europe that the post-Bretton Woods Khaleej Times Ban Ki-Moon UN chief FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 The Germans resist a heroic view of war In Berlin, the First World War centenary carries a warning about nationalism and conflict. Britain prefers to ignore the awkward issues.

MARTIN KETTLE Director Neil MacGregor. But there things begin to diverge. e need to keep a watch Looking at the first objects in the two on the way the First catalogues, you might think the differ- World War is being ences merely reflected different national commemorated, wrote audiences. The first object in the London Santanu Das in the catalogue is King George V’s imperial WGuardian this week. He is right. With crown; the first in Berlin’s is a portrait the 4 August centenary of the outbreak of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The same point, less than two weeks away, that watchful- perhaps, in different contexts. ness is now very pressing. In Britain, at But the second objects part narrative least, it is hard not to be apprehensive company. In London it’s the pen with about the story we are about to be told. which Protestants signed the Ulster cov- The British government’s official web- enant against Irish home rule in 1912, site has recently started to describe the in Berlin, a German beer tankard com- First World War with studied care as “a memorating the Paris congress of the significant milestone in world history.” It Socialist International in 1889. The con- was certainly that. trast is emblematic of what follows. For But what kind of milestone? And with the two exhibitions, and the two books, what lessons? In the past two weeks I offer very different treatments of the war. have had the opportunity to visit two The 100 objects on which they focus are impressive and serious commemorations different. The conceptual approach is dif- An image of a British munitions factory in 1915 at the Imperial War Museum’s new First World War galleries in London. of the war: one in London, at the Imperial ferent. The stories they tell are different. War Museum’s justly admired new And those differences matter, as do their First World War galleries; the other in larger implications for today. But it is to say that the German than Britons lost their lives in the world British remember the first war as tragic- Berlin, in a no less powerful special First In Britain the commemoration at the approach to commemorating the war – wars of the 20th century. Yet in Britain heroic and the second as idealist-heroic. World War exhibition in the Deutsches Imperial War Museum is fundamentally seeing it as an international event in a every village has a lovingly tended war Today even our soldiers in illegal wars are Historisches Museum. about Britain and British people. Step different Europe from the one we inhabit memorial, while Germany is a country described as heroes. In many respects the exhibitions are into the new galleries and you find your- today – is different from the national with few war memorials indeed. The While British monuments are mostly similar. In each visitors are offered a self watching newsreel film about the continuity that still characterises the British 100 objects survey ends, appro- rooted in this heroic view of the past, chronological story of the war; in each people of Britain in 1914. In Berlin the British narrative. It is also to say that this priately in this context, with the com- modern German monuments cannot be. the exhibits and displays are themati- commemoration is fundamentally about reflects a markedly less heroic approach fort of the Cenotaph. The German, on the German ones are therefore always as cally clustered. There are special sections Europe and the wider world. Step into to history. Both viewpoints have some other hand, ends with the postwar street much about the future as the past. That about war in the trenches, at sea and in that gallery and you find yourself watch- validity. But the German approach, espe- violence of the paramilitary nationalist is certainly true of the Berlin First World the air; about weaponry; about the home ing newsreel film from Berlin, Vienna, cially in the light of the Balkan wars of Freikorps, in which many future Nazis War exhibition. front; about women and the war; about Paris and St Petersburg. the 1990s and of today’s Ukraine crisis, took part. The German word Mahnmal – a warn- the Russian revolution, medicine, the That’s not to say that the London is the more urgent one for an audience In a recent lecture in which he pre- ing monument – has no direct equivalent arts, and many others. In each there are galleries ignore the rest of the world. in 2014. viewed the British Museum’s upcom- in English, or in British culture. But the plenty of interactive opportunities. Likewise it would be absurd to pretend This goes to a much deeper point about ing autumn exhibition about Germany, Berlin exhibition is in the end a warning Strikingly, the two commemorations that the Berlin exhibition is not pro- the way we commemorate our history MacGregor argued that Germany is one exhibition about nationalism and war. have also both produced catalogues foundly about Germans and Germany. generally. In Britain our monuments are of the few countries in Europe whose The IWM’s is not. with identical titles. On my desk are Nor is it to ignore the fact that Germany’s notably comfortable with the national national monuments, museums and com- In the end, for all its efforts and care, the IWM’s new hardback publication, A wish to see the war in international past, even when that past is a troubling memorations refuse to allow any heroic it offers a subduedly heroic national view History of the First World War in 100 terms – and the current popularity there one. Even when they commemorate great vision to intrude at all. of the war. Objects. Next to it is the equally weighty of books such as Christopher Clark’s The loss – as with the First World War cem- The refusal of the heroic runs through In Britain our commemorations and Der Erste Welt Krieg in 100 Objekten, Sleepwalkers, which has the European eteries – British monuments nevertheless contemporary Germany, he argued. But memorials do not address the awkward published by the DHM. Both formats powers all contributing to the drift to war manage at some level to venerate, and in Britain, and even more so in the chapters of our history. As a result they are a tribute to the influence and suc- in 1914 – owes something to the wish not even to celebrate, the sacrifice. That’s United States, the heroic is ever present, do not illuminate the awkward dilemmas cess of the 100-object approach to world to see the conflict as the result of German not true in Germany, for reasons of more especially in relation to the commemora- of our future. In my view we are much history pioneered by the British Museum aggression. recent German history. More Germans tion of war. It is what unifies the way the the poorer for it. THE GUARDIAN

Malaysian Air can use crisis to root out problems Democrats make their Critics are seeing a very different Senate stand in Georgia Najib after Malaysian Air lost BY ALBERT R HUNT emocrats are feeling blue about Georgia, and they like it: a second Boeing 777 on July Namely, in difficult midterm elections, the party is posi- tioned to take over a Republican-held Senate seat and the 17: Steady, circumspect and Dgovernorship. Although Democrats were mildly disappointed that businessman David Perdue won the Republican Senate runoff yesterday against statesman-like. veteran Representative Jack Kingston, that bitter campaign left scars, and Perdue is a mistake-prone candidate. BY WILLIAM PESEK Aziz was quoted widely this He faces Democrat Michelle Nunn, who starts the general election week opining on a Malaysian Air with advantages: she has raised lots of money and has almost $5m cash hat a difference “curse.” on hand; she runs ahead of Perdue in a recent survey; it’s her first four months can Privatisation is the main option race, and she has evolved into a good candidate while also riding the make. In March, being considered. The process may continuing popularity of her father, Sam Nunn, who represented the WMalaysian leader indeed enable Chief Executive state in the Senate for 24 years until retiring in 1997. Najib Razak was widely criticised Officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya and As Democrats struggle to retain control of the Senate — the for mishandling the search for a his team to strengthen the air- Republicans need to win a net of six seats — Democrats hope to offset Malaysian Airlines jet that disap- line’s balance sheet and improve any losses by picking off a couple held by Republicans; at the top of peared with 239 people on board. competitiveness. But I worry it the list is the one in Georgia of retiring Saxby Chambliss. His government’s unsteady initial won’t address the underlying The poll that has Nunn ahead also shows that the Democratic guber- response to the Flight 370 trag- issues — it will prolong them. natorial candidate, Jason Carter, a state legislator and grandson of edy deeply tarnished the Malaysia The airline’s problems are the Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak signs a condolence book for victims President Jimmy Carter, is beating incumbent Republican Gov Nathan brand. same as those that ail Malaysia of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 at the residence of the Netherlands’ Deal, who’s entangled in some ethics controversies. Critics are seeing a very dif- Inc Revenues lag costs because Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Democrats tout the appeal of this fresh-faced young ticket — she ferent Najib after Malaysian of insular thinking, inefficiency, is 47 and he is 38 — running against a 71-year old-incumbent and a Air lost a second Boeing 777 on fat supplier contracts and mili- 64-year-old businessman with some Mitt Romney-type business con- July 17: steady, circumspect and tant labour unions. Long shielded 2010, the company slashed enough Malaysia is currently growing at troversies in his background. statesman-like. As world leaders from global competition, staffed jobs, flights and debt to relist and a healthy 6.2 percent pace. The The generational appeal of the two Democrats, argues Gordon Giffin, bickered with President Vladimir with political cronies and hob- prepare for seeking a credit rat- country has done well building the Nunn campaign chairman and veteran Georgia political strategist, Putin over Russia’s alleged role bled by inefficient supply chains, ing to sell corporate bonds again. physical infrastructure and rais- is powerful: “Here one plus one equals three.” in the shooting down of Flight 17, its employees generated a paltry Malaysian Air’s troubles are ing living standards. Republicans counter that with the primaries now over, Georgia will Najib quietly brokered deals with $220,000 of revenue on aver- more daunting in some ways. It But Putrajaya shouldn’t let revert to its conservative inclinations in the fall, predicting victories rebel leaders in Ukraine to gain age in the last three years com- faces cutthroat competition from itself be lulled by with these met- by Deal and Perdue. access to the bodies of 298 people pared with $524,800 at Singapore Tony Fernandes’ low-cost AirAsia rics. By not implementing reforms They note that while their Senate candidates attacked each other and the plane’s black boxes. The Airlines and $245,000 at Thai and has an unparalleled image for the future — foremost among in a primary and runoff, Michelle Nunn has largely escaped criticism; diplomatic coup has gone a long Airways. crisis on its hands. But JAL dem- them, scrapping the race-based that will change quickly. way toward erasing memories of Those headwinds may intensify onstrates that the bankruptcy of preferences that benefit ethnic The wealthy Perdue is expected to go after Nunn, a nonprofit execu- the Flight 370 fiasco. now because privatising a govern- a flag carrier isn’t the end of the Malays only — Malaysia risks tive who worked with former Republican President George H W Bush’s It will be much harder for ment-linked company essentially world. standing still while countries Points of Light organization, as a national, liberal Democrat who has Malaysian Air to recover its own means bailing it out. There will The stumbling block, of course, like Indonesia and the Philippines avoided specific stances. Democrats, however, doubt a slash and burn reputation, however. Most observ- be less urgency to challenge the is pride. Malaysia is a still-devel- race forward. tactic will work in this case: The Nunns of Georgia just don’t resonate ers acknowledge that the airline status quo, not more. oping nation eager to tout home- This dynamic, as I’ve writ- left-wing radicalism. bears no blame for the loss of Bankruptcy is the better grown symbols like Proton cars ten before, helps explain why Despite Perdue’s background, Nunn will have considerable business Flight 17. option. It would free management and the Petronas Towers that Malaysia’s entire economy support; she has ties to a number of top executives and her father was But as a business, it was teeter- to make the bold moves needed dominate the Kuala Lumpur isn’t flying higher. Jettisoning a favourite of the state’s business community. And Perdue got into an ing well before the crash, bleeding turn things around: scale back the skyline. If sound business think- Malaysian Air now, forcing the ugly fight with the US Chamber of Commerce which backed Kingston about $1.6m a day. A month ear- airline’s global ambitions; scrap ing were at play in Putrajaya, kind of painful restructuring in the runoff. lier, state-run parent Khazanah many routes; face down powerful Malaysia’s administrative capital, the company has avoided for so President Barack Obama will be an albatross for the Democrats in Nasional reckoned the unprofita- union officials who’ve managed to the national carmaker would’ve long, would send a powerful sig- Georgia, though one crucial question is whether the party can register ble carrier only had enough funds scuttle previous overhaul efforts; been shuttered 10 years ago. nal throughout the economy. If several hundred thousand new African-Americans and Latino voters to last another year. and perhaps rebrand the airline. Letting Malaysian Air go bust the airline can root out its deep- and turn them out on November 4. Now, many passengers are sure The process worked for Japan wouldn’t be any easier for Najib’s est problems, it might not just Both contests likely will be close. to declare Malaysian Air a per- Airlines. After JAL filed the larg- party. rehabilitate its own image, but Yet the early odds suggest an even chance that Georgia next January sonal no-fly zone, whatever the est-ever bankruptcy by a non- Complacency, though, car- Malaysia’s, too. will be represented statewide by a Carter and a Nunn, just as it was facts. Maybank analyst Mohshin financial Japanese company in ries its own risks. It’s true that WP-BLOMBERG 40 years ago. WP-BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Iraq MPs elect Fuad Masum as President Attack on prisoner convoy kills dozens

BAGHDAD: Kurdish politi- the attack, which saw militants cian Fuad Masum (pictured) ram a security convoy with a sui- became Iraq’s new president cide car bomb before detonating yesterday, in a step towards other bombs and raking it with forming a government that vis- gunfire. iting UN chief Ban Ki-moon Nearly all of the 60 prisoners said must be inclusive for the believed to be on the bus died. country to survive. It was not immediately clear A June onslaught on Sunni how many attackers died, nor how Arab areas north and west of the prisoners they were appar- Baghdad led by the jihadist Islamic ently trying to free were killed. State (IS) group has brought Iraq Human rights watchdogs have to the brink of breakup, with the accused retreating Iraqi troops government struggling to assert of having executed more than any authority beyond its Shia power 250 prisoners since June 9 in an base. apparent bid to prevent them Parliament elected Masum, from joining the ranks of advanc- who served as the first prime ing IS fighters. A man holds up a sign featuring Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama and minister of Iraq’s autonomous Seven Kurdish peshmerga United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, during a demonstration in central Rome to protest against Israel’s Kurdish region more than two fighters were killed Thursday in military campaign in Gaza, yesterday. decades ago, by an overwhelming through a busy restaurant and intense clashes with IS militants majority of 211 votes to 17. shopping area of central Baghdad, in the flashpoint town of Jalawla, Under an unofficial power- killing at least 15 people, police a doctor and a peshmerga officer sharing deal, Iraq’s Kurds tradi- and medical sources said. said. Ban’s speech focused on Canada criticised over tionally get the post of president. The Shia premier has accused Iraq’s “struggle against terror- The move could pave the way mainstream politicians from the ism” and condemned the IS offen- for a deal on the much more pow- Sunni Arab minority of condoning sive, which has forced more than erful post of prime minister. the IS offensive and of “dancing 600,000 people from their homes its pro-Israel stance The UN chief met current in the blood” of the onslaught’s in a matter of weeks. Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki victims. The past week saw IS spark and stressed the need for a broad- But many retort that it was a new international outcry with OTTAWA: Four hundred and on denouncing Hamas’ rocket collective punishment.” based government to be formed as Maliki’s own brand of sectarian an ultimatum that purged Mosul eighty academics, lawyers, com- strikes and uncritically proclaim- Adam Hodge, spokesman for soon as possible to save the coun- politics that brought the country of its centuries-old Christian munity activists and others ing Israel’s right to self-defence.” Foreign Affairs Minister John try from collapse. to the brink of collapse, and he community. criticised Canada’s government And they said this “discred- Baird, said in response to the “Iraq is facing an existential now faces intense domestic and Despite the billions of dollars for taking a decisively pro-Israel its Canada” as well as “subverts criticisms that “Canada mourns threat but it can be overcome foreign pressure to step aside. spent on training and equip- position amid the current con- Canada’s own official foreign the death and suffering of inno- by the formation of a thor- He was also criticised over the ment by the United States dur- flict in the Gaza Strip, saying it policy goal of achieving a ‘com- cent civilians in Gaza. oughly inclusive government,” he army’s poor performance in the ing its eight-year occupation, “discredits Canada.” prehensive, just and lasting peace “However, responsibility rests said at a joint news conference face of the lightning offensive Iraq’s million-strong army com- In an open letter published in settlement’ between Israel and solely with Hamas and its allies, with Maliki. “It is critical that launched in second city Mosul on pletely folded when the insurgents the daily Globe and Mail, they said Palestine.” who launched and continue to all political leaders fulfil their June 9. attacked last month. they “are profoundly perturbed The group acknowledged that feed this crisis,” he added. responsibilities to ensure that Insurgents launched a spectac- They have since received the by the unbalanced and partisan “Hamas’ indiscriminate rocket “We stand by Israel’s right to the government formation proc- ular pre-dawn assault yesterday support of thousands of Shiite position adopted by the Canadian firings are illegal under interna- defend itself, by itself. Israel will ess falls within the constitutional on a convoy transferring inmates volunteers and some foreign mili- government and federal political tional law” but added that “Israel be forced to continue defending timetable,” he said. convicted of terrorism charges in tary assistance, but the govern- parties regarding the current vio- is still bound by basic interna- itself as long as Hamas continues Hours later and only a short Taji, only 25km north of Baghdad. ment has so far proved unable to lence in Gaza.” tional humanitarian law princi- its rocket attacks against civil- drive from where Ban was According to police and medical claw back any lost ground. They noted that official state- ples protecting civilians during ians.” AFP speaking, twin car bombs ripped sources, at least 60 people died in AFP ments have “focused exclusively times of war and prohibiting

Kerry ‘wanded’ by security guards in Cairo

CAIRO: John Kerry has spent much of this week shut- tling between Middle Eastern capitals, trying to get Hamas and Israel to put down their guns. For his efforts, Kerry probably did not expect to be suspected of being an armed threat himself. Yet that was what briefly happened on Tuesday, when Kerry was stopped by security guards as he entered Cairo’s pres- idential palace to meet Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah Al Sisi. Footage shows America’s top Newly elected Israeli President Reuven Rivlin is sworn in during a ceremony diplomat being “wanded” with a at the Knesset in Jerusalem yesterday. hand-held electronic scanner. It was a move that raised eyebrows among members of Kerry’s trav- Peres steps down elling press corps, who said the US secretary of state was usually afforded every courtesy when on official business abroad. as Israeli president The incident caused a small diplomatic kerfuffle, amid sus- JERUSALEM: Israel’s elder he added, making clear he did not picion that Kerry had been statesman Shimon Peres bowed envisage a quiet retirement. purposefully humiliated in a out of active political life yester- But Peres also defended Israel’s show of Egyptian independence. day with an ardent defence of offensive in Gaza, launched in But taken to task on Egyptian the war in Gaza against Hamas response to rocket attacks on television, Sisi’s spokesman, fighters and a defiant prediction its territory, despite the deaths Ehab Badawy, shrugged it off that peace will “one day” come of at least 762 Palestinians and 32 as a “spontaneous” incident. to the Middle East. Israeli soldiers. He accused Hamas “This security measure is very At a ceremony overshadowed militants of turning Gaza “into a natural,” said Badawy, “one by the 17-day Gaza conflict in man-made tragedy” and of delib- that Egyptian officials abroad which nearly 800 people have died, erately putting civilians in harm’s are subjected to âAi and Nabil Peres, 90, relinquished his largely way. “Israel is not the enemy of the Fahmy, a former foreign min- ceremonial post as Israeli presi- people of Gaza,” he said. ister, experienced it during his dent to Reuven Rivlin, a mem- But he also said Israel should visit to the United States.” ber of Prime Minister Benjamin welcome and encourage debate Egyptian foreign ministry Netanyahu’s Likud Party. about the rights and wrongs of officials have explained the Israeli heads of state are not the conflict in Gaza. incident as the act of a security directly involved in political deci- “In these difficult days in which team unfamiliar with dealing sion-making, but Peres, a Nobel the eyes of the nation are on its with foreign dignitaries. Peace Laureate, has used the leaders, on you, please do not Nevertheless, it marks presidency over the last seven lessen the debate. It is the essence Kerry’s second embarrass- years as a pulpit for advocating of democracy,” said Peres. ment in Egypt in the space of a peace with the Palestinians, often Peres was born in Poland in month. Kerry flew in to Egypt taking a more conciliatory stance 1923 and began in politics as a in late June, one day before a than right-winger Netanyahu. close aide to Israel’s founding verdict was expected in the In his farewell speech, Peres father and first prime minister trial of three Al Jazeera jour- invoked the biblical prophets David Ben-Gurion. In a career nalists accused of endanger- he said had taught Israel to see spanning nearly seven decades, ing Egypt’s national security. “social justice and world peace as he has served in a dozen cabi- In a meeting with Sisi, Kerry guiding principles” and he urged nets and twice as prime minister. explicitly raised their plight; the Jewish state to “practise He shared the Nobel Peace Prize that a guilty verdict was still equality for all its citizens”. with Israel’s late prime minister reached hours later, despite “I will not give up my right to Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian confirming the return of US serve my people and my country. leader Yasser Arafat for a 1993 aid to Egypt, represented a And I will continue to help build interim peace deal that they and slapdown for US diplomacy. my country, with a deep belief their successors failed to turn into GUARDIAN NEWS that one day it will know peace,” a durable treaty. REUTERS FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Book on Hugo Chavez Ukraine PM UK hacking resigns after coalition trial witness collapses KIEV: Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned in a shock move yes- terday after the collapse of the ruling parliamentary coalition spared jail paved the way for new legisla- tive elections in the strife-torn ex-Soviet nation. “I announce my resignation in Prison term suspended for a year connection with the dissolution of the parliamentary coalition and LONDON: The British tabloid one of only two people who agreed the blocking of government ini- journalist whose tales of phone to testify about voicemail inter- tiatives,” a furious Yatsenyuk told hacking were key to the convic- ception at the News of the World, parliament. tion of former News of the World which was shut down in disgrace Yatsenyuk said the “govern- editor Andy Coulson was yes- in 2011. ment and the prime minister terday spared jail for his own “It became clear in the trial must resign” after several par- involvement in the scandal. that I have just completed, that ties pulled out of the European Dan Evans had admitted hack- getting people who work in news- Choice parliamentary majority, ing phones while working for the papers to give evidence of phone in a move that triggered the pos- Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid hacking is extremely difficult, if sibility of long-awaited early leg- and its rival, the Sunday Mirror, not impossible,” said Saunders, islative polls. as well as lying about his activities who had presided over the hack- Pro-Western Yatsenyuk -- during a civil lawsuit and paying ing trial. who has helped steer the coun- public officials for stories. “The undisputed evidence in try through upheaval since the But at the Old Bailey court in the trial was that between 2004 Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro holds a book with a picture of Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chavez, ouster of Kremlin-backed leader London, the 38-year-old received and 2006, there was a great deal during a news conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas yesterday. Viktor Yanukovych in February a 10-month prison term sus- of phone hacking at the News of -- lashed out at the decision to pended for a year, meaning he will the World. pull the plug on the coalition as not serve any jail time unless he “While I have no doubt it Kiev is struggling to end a bloody breaches his probation. He was wasn’t done openly, it must have separatist insurrection tearing also given 200 hours’ community been known about by more people Germany to watch US agents apart the east. service. than have been prepared to give “Placing narrow political Evans was a star witness in the evidence about it in court.” BERLIN: Germany will step up long-discussed step with the inte- The government sources gave no interests above the fate of the recent high-profile hacking trial, The judge said he would not its counter-espionage activity rior and foreign ministers. further details. Minister Thomas government is unacceptable. It claiming to have played Coulson a speculate why so few people had against some of its allies, govern- The “360 degree view” will de Maiziere had made clear he is a moral and political crime,” voicemail from James Bond actor been prepared to testify but said ment sources said oyesterday, allow German intelligence officers wanted to look into improvements he blasted. Daniel Craig’s phone and telling the fact made Evans’ position after Berlin opened investiga- to watch US and British agents to German counter-espionage. Parliament speaker Oleksandr jurors that hacking was so rife at “unique”. tions into two men it suspects of on German soil and marks a “The (spying) incident shows how Turchynov called on deputies to the News of the World that “even The other person who gave spying for the United States. shift from the previous focus on important effective counter-intel- put forward immediately a can- the office cat” knew about it. evidence was Clive Goodman, the The scandal broke a year after Russians, Chinese and ligence is,” he told top-selling daily didate for a temporary premier Coulson, who was editor of the News of the World’s former royal allegations of widespread surveil- Iranians, reported the Bild earlier in July. “until parliamentary elections are Sunday tabloid at the time and editor who was jailed in 2007 for lance of Germans by US agents Sueddeutsche. “Now we need a Two weeks ago, Germany told held.” went on to work as media chief for hacking and was a defendant in who even bugged Chancellor strong signal,” the paper quoted the CIA station chief in Berlin to It was not immediately clear if Prime Minister David Cameron, the recent trial. Angela Merkel’s phone, chilling someone close to the decision as leave the country in a dramatic Yatsenyuk or the cabinet remain was jailed for 18 months earlier He and Coulson were also ties with Washington. saying. The scale of the new meas- show of anger after starting an in position as caretakers. this month after being found accused of conspiring to pay a Two sources, who declined to ures has not yet been decided, investigation into the second sus- Early parliamentary elections guilty of hacking. police officer for royal telephone be identified, confirmed a report said the paper, adding that one pected spy.One man was arrested in Ukraine have been expected Sentencing Evans yesterday, directories, but the jury could not in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung news- question was whether communi- for espionage and has told inves- since Viktor Yanukovych was Judge John Saunders said he was reach a verdict and both men face paper that Merkel’s chief of staff, cations from embassies and con- tigators he passed documents to kicked out of power following lenient because the journalist was a retrial on that charge. AFP Peter Altmaier, had agreed on the sulates would be monitored. the CIA. AFP months of deadly protests. The formal dissolution of the majority coalition in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada came after the Udar party of former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko and the nationalist Svoboda group pulled More MH17 bodies return to Netherlands out of the coalition after reports of political wrangling. EINDHOVEN, Netherlands: Dozens An overwhelming 193 of the victims warned it could take months for the bodies fighters shot down the two aircraft. That step now gives President more bodies from the crash site of were Dutch and the country has been to be identified. Both pilots managed to parachute out Petro Poroshenko the right over Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are set to united in grief and anger because of delays Dutch police have been visiting the of the Su-25 jets, which came down some the next month to announce arrive in the Netherlands yesterday, as in getting bodies home and over the way bereaved to retrieve DNA samples from 45 kilometres (25 miles) south-east of a fresh parliamentary poll. the EU prepares to hit Russia with fresh pro-Russian separatists have treated the items such as hairbrushes and from details the MH17 crash site towards the Russian Poroshenko reacted to the move sanctions. site, the victims’ remains and personal of tattoos and fingerprints, as well as con- border. by saying that lawmakers were Foreign ministers from the 28-nation possessions. sulting medical and dental records to help The incident came as the International reacting to overwhelming popular bloc said they would meet in Brussels to In a poignant and sombre ceremony, with the identification. Committee of the Red Cross said it con- demands for an “overhaul” of the draw up a new list of Russian individuals uniformed Dutch military personnel Ukrainian government troops are push- sidered Ukraine to be in a state of civil legislative body. The millionaire and entities to be slapped with sanctions hoisted 40 wooden coffins from two planes ing on with their offensive to wrest control war, and warned both sides to abide by the tycoon -- who was elected in May over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis. and placed them in individual hearses at of east Ukraine’s industrial heartland from Geneva Conventions. -- had pledged that the possibility The European Union agreed to speed Eindhoven airport in the south of the the pro-Moscow separatists. Putin is staring down fresh European of upcoming elections would not up the imposition of wider sanctions country. In a dramatic development in the con- sanctions just a week after the latest set paralyse the government as the and examine tougher measures after the Tears flowed as a trumpeter played flict hampering the MH17 recovery and was unveiled over its role in the Ukraine country teeters perilously on the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down in the Last Post at a gathering of around investigation effort, Kiev said missiles crisis, which has chilled East-West tensions brink of both economic collapse strife-torn eastern Ukraine, allegedly by 1,000 bereaved relatives, King Willem- fired from Russia took down two of its to the lowest point in years. and territorial disintegration. separatist rebels backed by neighbouring Alexander and Queen Maxima and repre- warplanes in the rebel-controlled area Ministers will decide on a list of “entities The possible elections have Russia. sentatives of the other mourning nations of the crash. and persons, including from the Russian taken on added significance since The first bodies from the crash site met the planes. “According to preliminary information, Federation,” for providing “material or recent changes in the constitution arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Officials from the Netherlands who are the rockets were launched from Russian financial support” to those responsible for handed a raft of key powers from bringing the grief-stricken nation to a leading the investigation on the ground in territory,” Ukraine’s National Security and the March annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea the president to parliament. standstill as it mourned the 298 passen- Ukraine say they have received 200 bodies Defence Council said. territory and destabilising the east of the Analysts said that while gers and crew who left the country on the from the rebels. A spokesman for the self-proclaimed country, where MH17 came down, the EU Yatsenyuk’s resignation need not ill-fated journey a week ago. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has Donetsk People’s Republic told AFP its said Tuesday. AFP prove disastrous. AFP Second foreign Pilgrimage of clowns One year on, Spain train tourist shot dead in Kenya crash driver apologises MADRID: A year after a train into a concrete siding, coming to MOMBASA, Kenya: A foreign flew off the tracks on the out- rest in a mangled heap. female tourist was shot dead in skirts of the Spanish city of He has been provisionally Kenya’s port city of Mombasa Santiago de Compostela, kill- charged with 79 counts of reck- yesterday, the second such kill- ing 79 people, the driver on less homicide. The driver has been ing there this month, police said. Thursday asked for forgiveness released under court supervision “We are pursuing the kill- in an open letter to the victims. while the investigation into the ers who have shot the tourist,” “I feel a great deal of pain and crash continues. Mombasa police chief Robert sorrow,” Francisco Jose Garzon “In reality I don’t know if what Kitur said. No details of her Amo, who has been provisionally I say or feel could provide you nationality were given. charged over the accident, wrote with some relief from your tre- The shooting took place close in the letter published in daily mendous pain,” Garzon added in to where a female Russian tour- newspaper La Voz de Galicia. his open letter. ist was killed on July 6, also by “It distresses me to think of “You don’t know how much I unknown gunmen. Police blamed what words I can say to you, if would give for that. The harm you that attack on “normal thuggery”. they will be adequate, if what I have suffered is so great.” “We are yet to establish if there say could bother you. All I can Garzon lived in hiding immedi- is anything stolen from her,” do is ask for forgiveness,” he ately after the accident but now Kitur added. added. “does not hide anymore” in the No one has claimed responsibil- The eight-carriage train was northern city of A Coruna where ity for the shooting. hurtling round a bend at 179 kilo- he looks after his ill mother, daily Mombasa has been the scene metres per hour (110 mph), more newspaper El Pais reported. of worsening unrest in recent than twice the speed limit for that The judge leading the investiga- months with a string of shootings stretch of track, when it tore off tion into Spain’s deadliest train and bombings blamed on Somalia’s the rails on July 24, 2013, accord- accident in decades, Luis Alaez, Shebab rebels or local supporters. ing to its data recorders. has blamed excessive speed and a Last month the Al-Qaeda-linked Garzon ended a telephone con- lack of adequate automatic brak- Shebab warned foreign tourists to versation with the on-board con- ing systems on the stretch of the stay out of Kenya. Hundreds of clowns participate in the annual pilgrimage to Mexico City, Mexico, yesterday. ductor 11 seconds before the train track where the train derailed for AFP flew off the rails and ploughed the disaster. AFP FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Probe into Taiwan plane crash begins Aviation officials say weather was suitable for flying

TAIPEI: Taiwan authori- “We cannot say for sure what felt “deeply grieved” after learn- ties launched an investigation went wrong at this point. The ing of the casualties, the main- yesterday into the crash of flight safety committee has land’s State Council Taiwan a TransAsia Airways turbo- opened an investigation.” Affairs Office, said in a statement, prop plane in which 48 people Both black boxes had been according to media. were killed with the weather found and officials would begin The mainland and Taiwan have expected to be a factor in the examining them later in the day, been rivals for decades, with the inquiry. she said. mainland regarding Taiwan as a The plane, a 70-seat ATR 72, Alison Kao, a TransAsia renegade province, though com- crashed on Wednesday evening spokeswoman, said the weather mercial relations have grown in near the runway while trying could have been a factor but recent years. to land on the small island of the airline was not jumping Typhoon Matmo hit Taiwan on Penghu, west of Taiwan Island, to any conclusions before the Wednesday, bringing heavy rain after a typhoon had passed ear- investigation. and strong wind. It later passed lier in the day. The aircraft took off from the island and headed to China The aircraft had 54 passengers the southern Taiwan city of and was downgraded to a tropi- A Malaysian woman hangs a prayer and condolence message for victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight, at and four crew on board. Two of Kaohsiung, heading for Makong cal storm. a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. the dead were French, the French airport in the Penghu islands, Taiwan has had a poor record foreign ministry said, and 10 peo- but it crashed just short of the for aviation safety over the ple were injured and taken to runway on its second attempt last two decades, though it has hospital. to land during a thunder storm. improved recently after the The leaders of rivals China and The islands are also known as the government tightened safety Return of Malaysian bodies will take time Taiwan both offered their condo- Pescadores. measures. lences over the deaths. No one on the ground was hurt. TransAsia had been involved KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian fasting month of Ramadan. “Therefore it is highly unlikely Taiwan’s civil aviation authori- Airline seats and life jackets in eight “incidents” since 2002, Prime Minister Najib Razak Forty-three Malaysians died that the bodies can be brought ties said the weather had been were strewn around the crash site including this latest one, accord- said yesterday it might take aboard flight MH17 operat- back in time for Hari Raya.” suitable for flying. and the roof of a nearby building ing to data on the website of the “weeks or months” before ing from Amsterdam to Kuala Two aircraft carrying remains “There were nine flights on was destroyed. Victims’ families Aviation Safety Council. It had remains of his compatriots who Lumpur, including 15 crew. There of some of the passengers arrived the same route between 2pm and were heading there, officials said. a fatal accident in 2002 when a perished in the shooting down were 193 Dutch nationals among in the Netherlands on Wednesday, 7pm on Wednesday. Only the Taiwan President Ma Ying- cargo plane carrying two pilots of a Malaysian airliner over the 298 people on board. where experts will work to iden- TransAsia flight crashed,” said jeou said in a statement all of the crashed into the sea. Ukraine can be brought home. “We cannot avoid a very tify them with DNA samples col- Jean Shen, director of the Civil island’s people were grieving. TransAsia and bigger rivals, Malaysia, a majority Muslim painstaking process. This is both lected from relatives. The process Aeronautics Administration. “Today is a very sad day in the China Airlines and Eva Airways, country, had initially sought the technical requirement and could take months. “The weather reports showed it history of Taiwan aviation,” Ma have been facing pressure from to have the remains returned the legal requirement,” Najib The remains of the victims will was totally OK for landing,” she said. higher energy prices and increas- by July 28 for Hari Raya, also told reporters after signing a be brought over the next few days said, adding that authorities were China’s president, Xi Jinping, ingly popular budget airlines. known as Eid Al Fitr, the fes- condolences book at the Dutch to a military base in the Dutch not ruling anything out. who is on a Latin America tour, REUTERS tival marking the end of the embassy. town of Hilversum. REUTERS Cambodian opposition leader set to become lawmaker China reopens sealed town PHNOM PENH: The leader on Tuesday saw the CNRP end a lawmaker who has stood down, voter list. So there is no problem National Assembly in return for a of Cambodia’s opposition will be boycott of parliament triggered by a party spokesman said, adding for him,” secretary general of the promise of electoral reforms. sworn in as a lawmaker follow- last July’s disputed election. the party would finalise his appli- NEC Tep Nytha said. Their swearing-in ceremony after plague ing a deal to end his party’s boy- The opposition accused Hun cation to become a lawmaker by Until a surprise royal pardon could take place over coming days. cott of parliament, officials said Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party yesterday. The National Election just before the election, Rainsy Hun Sen, 61, is regularly criti- BEIJING: A Chinese town yesterday, a year after he was of stealing the election by rigging Committee (NEC) said the switch had faced 11 years in jail if he cised by campaigners for ignoring sealed off after a man died of barred from standing for office. ballots. Rainsy was removed from was legal as Rainsy had been re- returned to Cambodia for convic- human rights and stamping out plague re-opened yesterday Sam Rainsy, head of the the electoral register months registered on the voter list, and tions -- in absentia -- of crimes dissent. after authorities found no fur- Cambodia National Rescue Party before that election because of the party’s reserve candidates he contends were politically moti- Despite securing victory at the ther cases of the illness, state (CNRP), is seen as the main criminal convictions that were in the constituency where the vated. The pardon came too late disputed poll, the CPP lost 22 media said. challenger to strongman Prime later pardoned. CNRP lawmaker had stepped for him to run for parliament. seats in a sign of falling support Authorities barred 30,000 peo- Minister Hun Sen, who has Analysts said his removal down had all resigned. After talks between Hun Sen for the strongman -- a former ple living in Yumen in the north- ruled Cambodia for nearly three reflected Hun Sen’s concern at “The main condition is that he and Rainsy on Tuesday, the Khmer Rouge cadre who has western province of Gansu from decades. the opposition’s rising popularity. has to be on the voter list, and CNRP agreed to end its boy- vowed to remain in power until leaving, while road blocks pre- A deal between the two rivals Rainsy will replace a CNRP he has already registered on the cott and take up its seats in the he is 74. AFP vented others from entering, after a 38-year-old died from plague last week. Chinese aggression decried “We have not discovered any new plague cases,” the state-run China News service cited Gansu’s Impeachment complaint health bureau as saying. It added that authorities had exterminated rodents and fleas filed against Aquino in designated quarantine zones, while 151 close contacts of the MANILA: President Benigno by nature a treaty, as it allowed man had been kept in isolation Aquino III faces another foreign forces to establish bases for nine days without showing impeachment complaint, this in the country — a move which symptoms. time for the supposed uncon- requires Congress’ ratification. Reports said that earlier this stitutionality of the Philippines’ “However, the president passed month the victim had fed his dog recently forged defence agree- it off as a mere executive agree- with a dead marmot, a small furry ment with the United States. ment and bypassed entirely animal similar to a squirrel, and The impeachment complaint, the Senate and the House of developed a fever the same day. signed by left-wing groups Representatives,” ACT Teachers Bubonic plague is a bacterial and party-lists, was filed yes- Party-List Representative infection best known for the terday before the House of Antontio Tinio said in an “Black Death,” a virulent epi- Representatives. It argued that interview. demic of the disease that killed Aquino allowed the Enhanced American Ambassador to the tens of millions of people in 14th Defence Cooperation Agreement Philippines Philip Goldberg, how- century Europe. without the approval of Congress. ever, has defended the EDCA, a A more recent pandemic, the The complainants, which key part of the US agenda to mod- Modern Plague, began in China include representatives from ernise its Asia-Pacific alliances as in the 1860s and reached Hong the Gabriela Women’s Party-list, the Obama administration pivots Kong by 1894, the US Centres for ACT Teachers Party-list and its foreign policy to the region. Disease Control (CDC) says on its Bayan Muna, said that EDCA is THE PHILIPPINE STAR website. AFP Filipino women hold mock missiles as they shout anti-China slogans as part of a global protest against Chinese aggression, outside the Chinese consulate in Manila’s financial district, Makati City, yesterday. Typhoon brings flooding Myanmar invites MSF back to crisis-hit Rakhine

YANGON: Myanmar yester- said at a press conference. welcomed the move in a state- severe restriction of movement day invited Doctors Without Listing the 24 international aid ment saying it hoped to expand and are largely unable to access Borders (MSF) to resume groups operating in Rakhine, he “life-saving” care amid “a human- state facilities. work in Rakhine state, which is said “we invite all to join hands itarian crisis.” The group was ejected from gripped by a severe health cri- with us... especially MSF.” Some 140,000 people, mainly the state after saying it treated sis nearly five months after the The minister said that Rohingya, are trapped in mis- injured people in northern medical aid group was ejected Myanmar would guarantee the erable camps in Rakhine state Rakhine near a village where from the region. safety of MSF’s staff in Rakhine, following violence between the UN said dozens of Rohingya The ministry of health has where it faced protests against Buddhists and Muslims in 2012 were killed in an attack by major- requested MSF to return to the its activities from nationalist that left around 200 dead. ity ethnic Rakhines, who are unrest-plagued western state, Buddhists who accused it of giving The United Nation’s assistant Buddhist. where hundreds of thousands of preferential treatment to state- secretary general Kyung-Wha The government has rejected people have been left with almost less Rohingya Muslims. Kang in June raised concerns the claims. no access to healthcare after But the government has yet to about “appalling conditions” in In March Buddhist extremists authorities told the group to leave specify whether the group will be the camps. attacked warehouses and prop- in late February. able to fully resume its work in MSF provided primary health- erty of other international groups “As human beings we all com- the region. care services in several remote in the state capital Sittwe, caus- mit errors and the errors usu- MSF, which won the Nobel areas near the border with ing most humanitarian organisa- ally lie on both sides,” President’s Peace Prize in 1999 and has oper- Bangladesh where Rohingya com- tions to pull their staff from the A street is flooded after Matmo, the second storm to hit China in a week, Office Minister Soe Thein ated in Myanmar for 22 years, munities have long lived under region. AFP landed in Fujian on Wednesday, bringing torrential rainstorms. FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Gunmen kill two Afghan market bombing kills six Finnish women in Afghanistan 20 injured as suicide bomber detonates explosive-packed motorcycle in Takhar province HERAT: Two Finnish female aid workers were shot dead KUNDUZ: A suicide bomber withdraw by the end of the year. spokesman confirmed the death There was no immediate claim instability and revive ethnic ten- by unidentified gunmen while detonated an explosive- “This morning a suicide bomber toll and said: “The victims were of responsibility, but the Taliban sions that ravaged the country travelling in a taxi in western packed motorcycle in northern detonated his explosive packed shopping for the holy month of routinely carry out similar during the 1992-1996 civil war. Afghanistan yesterday, offi- Afghanistan yesterday, killing motorcycle in Khwaja Ghar dis- Ramadan and Eid Al Fitr festival.” attacks and have vowed to dis- Nato combat troops will cials said, the latest killings six civilians and wounding more trict central of Takhar province,” “Unfortunately, they were mar- rupt the election of the succes- withdraw from Afghanistan in a recent spate of attacks on than 20 in a crowded market as Sunatullah Taimor, the provin- tyred in a suicide attack by the sor to Afghan President Hamid by December, and reports sug- foreigners. shoppers bought supplies for the cial governor's spokesman said enemies of Afghanistan,” a phrase Karzai. gest unrest is already worsening No group has yet claimed upcoming festival of Eid Al Fitr, yesterday. taken to mean the Taliban, who On Tuesday, a Taliban suicide nationwide. responsiblity, but the Christian officials said. “All of the wounded were civil- have waged an insurgency against attacker riding a motorbike killed According to recent UN fig- medical charity the women The attack in Takhar province ians, six were killed and 26 others the government since being five foreign guards in a foreign ures, civilian casualties soared worked for was targeted by the yesterday came as Afghanistan is were wounded,” he said. ousted from power in a US-led compound near the outer perim- by 24 percent in the first half Taliban four years ago in an conducting an audit of its presi- Taimor added that the bomb invasion in 2001. eter of Kabul airport. of 2014, while the International attack that killed eight foreigners. dential vote aimed at ending an had been intended for a police The Afghan interior ministry Afghanistan is on edge as the Crisis Group has said the “overall The militants claimed at the time impasse that has threatened to pick-up truck but missed its in a statement condemned the election dispute between poll trend is one of escalating violence the medics were “missionaries”. plunge the country into a cri- target. attack and put the number of rivals Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah and insurgent attacks.” Sayed Fazullah Wahidy, sis as foreign troops prepare to Khali Aseer, provincial police wounded at 28. Abdullah threatens to trigger REUTERS Governor of Herat province, said: “At around 11:30am gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at two Eid shopping foreigners riding in a taxi and killed them.” Interior Ministry spokesman Pakistan asks Karzai to Sediq Sediqqi said the perpetra- tors had escaped. “One person was detained at the scene but the two gunmen escaped and police pardon jailed reporter are searching the area,” he said. Finland’s President Sauli ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yes- Karzai to issue a presidential Niinisto condemned the “bar- terday appealed to Afghan pardon. baric” shootings. “The Finnish president Hamid Karzai to “I appeal to Afghan president women’s barbaric fate touches us issue a pardon to a journal- Hamid Karzai to use his powers,” all. The act is particularly shock- ist facing a four-year jail term to pardon Faizullah Khan, Rashid ing because the women were in in Afghanistan for “contacting said in a press conference in capi- Afghanistan to help the local pop- terrorists”. tal Islamabad. ulation. The murderer or murder- Faizullah Khan, a reporter with Rashid said Pakistan was also ers must be held accountable for the Pakistani private TV chan- using diplomatic channels for the their actions. I call on the Afghan nel ARY news, was arrested in release of its journalist. authorities to make every effort April by Afghan security forces “Both the ministry of interior to ensure the perpetrators are in Nangarhar province. and the ministry of information caught and brought to justice.” He was sentenced earlier this have been pursuing this matter The International Assistance month to four years in jail for from day one, the day he was Mission, a Christian medical entering without travel docu- arrested,” he added. charity, said the victims were ments and communicating with Rashid said Pakistan respected their employees. “Two Finnish militant sources. Afghanistan’s judicial system and expatriate female staff members Pervez Rashid, Pakistan’s was appealing the verdict in an have been killed in Herat,” it said. minister for information, urged Afghan court. AFP AFP Muslim women buy shoes at a market ahead of Eid Al Fitr in Karachi on Wednesday. Pakistan to give India ‘most Govt calls for ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza favoured nation’ status ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yes- Chaudhry said. and stranded in the shelters. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yes- The proposed meeting, terday called for an immediate “Unless this blockade is lifted “It is important that the block- terday said it would re-start announced by Pakistan’s foreign end to the blockade of Gaza we cannot send any relief assist- ade of Gaza is ended, its borders work on improving trade ties office on Wednesday, comes after to allow humanitarian relief ance,” he continued. opened and the Palestinian pris- with arch-rival India when the Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz to reach Palestinians as the Some 746 Palestinians have oners released,” Chaudhry said. two nations’ foreign ministers Sharif held talks with his Indian death toll in the besieged ter- been killed in Gaza since Israel The United Nations said on meet in Islamabad next month. counterpart Narendra Modi in ritory rose to more than 740. launched a military operation Wednesday that three quarters Pakistan had pledged to grant New Delhi following the Hindu The appeal came a day after to halt rocket fire from the of those killed were civilians and India “Most Favoured Nation hardliner’s inauguration in May. Pakistan voted along with other besieged territory on July 8. one third of those were children (MFN)” status by the end of Chaudhry said there were UN Human Rights Council Chaudhry said the Israeli -- the equivalent of one child 2012, meaning Indian exports number of issues on both sides members to launch a probe into military offensive had led to the killed each hour over the previ- would be treated the same as for normalising bilateral trade Israel’s offensive in the territory, killings in Gaza of “innocent ous two days. those from other nations, but so which included “making sure with rights chief Navi Pillay say- noncombatant and unarmed Situated on the Mediterranean far has not done so. India granted that vulnerable sectors are pro- ing the Jewish state’s military Palestinians including women coast, flanking Israel and Egypt, Pakistan MFN status in 1999. tected and the issue of the non- actions could amount to war and children”. the Gaza Strip is home to 1.7 “When the dialogue proc- tariff barriers in India and the crimes. “We have spoken clearly and million Palestinians who live ess resumes, we hope to build issue of imbalance of trade and The 47-member council unambiguously in the United in an area stretching just 362 Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on the work already done in certain other infrastructure- backed a Palestinian-drafted Nations Security Council on square kilometres, making it one this regard,” Pakistan’s top for- related issue.” resolution by 29 votes, with Arab Wednesday and call for an end of the most densely-populated eign ministry bureaucrat Aizaz MFN status will mean India and fellow Muslim countries Pakistan’s most senior foreign to hostilities and to revive the territories on the planet. Ahmad Chaudhry said. can export 6,800 items to joined by China and Russia, plus office bureaucrat Aizaz Ahmad peace talks.” Israel began a blockade on The foreign secretaries of Pakistan, up from around 2,000 Latin American and African Chaudhry told a press briefing. He said Pakistan was also Gaza in 2007 following the elec- Pakistan and India are set to at present, and the countries nations. “And that is why even in the actively working with Muslim tion of Hamas a year earlier and meet in Islamabad on August 25 aim to lift bilateral trade to $6bn “The blockade of Gaza must UN Security Council and later in and like-minded countries to maintains it is necessary to limit in the neighbouring countries’ within three years, officials said. be ended in order to allow access UN Human Rights Council we secure humanitarian access to Palestinian rocket attacks. latest attempt at improving ties. AFP of any humanitarian assistance,” called for humanitarian pauses,” those who are badly wounded AFP Afghan vote audit moves at snail’s pace Al Qaeda trainer held KABUL: The dusty ballot box civilians have died in the insur- from the disputed Afghan pres- gency during the first six months near Afghan boarder idential election was supposed of the year, although the Taliban to contain 550 votes. When failed to deliver on its promise to ISLAMABAD: Pakistan “There was a mix-up.” auditors cut the seal they found derail the vote entirely as millions security officials said yesterday The official, who declined to be barely 30 votes inside. of people turned out in defiance. they had arrested a top mili- identified as he is not authorised Both candidates cried foul, tant near the Afghan border to speak to the media, declined accusing the other camp of steal- US DEAL IN JEOPARDY but not a Pakistani Taliban to identify the trainer or give ing votes from a June 14 run-off After direct US interven- leader who colleagues had iden- details about him except to say presidential ballot, the results of tion earlier this month, both tified last week as a man who he had extensive experience in which are still being squabbled sides agreed to a full recount to once tried to blow up former training suicide bombers and over amid allegations of wide- resolve the dispute, but with more president Pervez Musharraf. making bombs. spread vote rigging. than 23,000 ballot boxes to audit, Security officials said on July Rashid, is believed to be in his “Both camps argued over observers worry that the process 15 the military had captured mid-30s and is a former Pakistani one result sheet for hours,” an is becoming bogged down by rows Adnan Rashid, who was accused air force officer who tried to Independent Election Commission over every detail. of trying to kill Musharraf in a become a suicide bomber before (IEC) official said. If that happens, talks to form 2003 bomb attack and who later he was jailed for the attempt to Eventually a United Nations a unity government just as thou- escaped from jail, in the South blow up Musharraf. official stepped in, and told the sands of foreign troops prepare Waziristan region near the He escaped from jail in 2012 two sides to move on and let the to leave the country could drag Afghan border. along with nearly 400 other mili- IEC investigate. on for months. The officials hailed the arrest, tants. Several Pakistani Taliban Preliminary results from the Moreover, the snail’s pace at which followed a shoot out, as the commanders also said Rashid election put Ashraf Ghani, a which the recount is moving will first major catch since the army had not been captured. former World Bank official, well push back the inauguration of a launched an offensive against Al “The news that Adnan Rashid ahead, but his rival Abdullah new president to replace Hamid Nato-led Italian soldiers at Herat airport supervise loading of ballot boxes Qaeda-linked militants along the was arrested is completely base- Abdullah rejected the result, Karzai, who has led Afghanistan from Badghis and Farah provinces, yesterday. Afghan border last month. less,” a Taliban commander said. claiming major fraud and calling since the Taliban was ousted in a The government and army did “He is free and safe and pro- the outcome a “coup” against the US-led war in 2001. spokesman Noor Mohammad the invalidation of fraudulent not officially confirm the arrest tected by his 12 suicide-bomber Afghan people. The ceremony was scheduled Noor told a news conference in votes. For example, both camps at the time. bodyguards who never leave his His supporters threatened for the start of August, and major Kabul. argued for four hours over one Later, various other security side. His family is with him.” to form a parallel government, delays could complicate plans to He conceded the process was ballot box,” Noor said. officials said it was not Rashid Two militant associates of and Afghans weary of civil war, sign an agreement by the end moving forward slowly, partly The United Nations said it had who had been captured but an Rashid said false reports of his hard-line Islamist rule under the of 2014 to keep about 10,000 US due to staffing constraints over been unable to get both sides to important Al Qaeda bomb-maker arrest had been spread in an Taliban and a vicious insurgency troops in the country. the holy month of Ramadan, and agree on a common text for scru- and trainer. attempt to get him to react so that has struck civilians as well as Yesteday, after eight days of because it was not well organised. tinising votes, which would allow “A high-value target has indeed that security forces could trace soldiers began to fear the worst. counting, only about 1,000 ballot “(And) there are still disagree- for a recount once fraudulent been arrested but it is not Adnan his whereabouts. More than 1,500 Afghan boxes had been examined, IEC ments between both camps about votes are thrown out. REUTERS Rashid,” one of the officials said. REUTERS FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Train rams into school bus, killing 20 Minister blames bus driver for Telangana accident; `200,000 payment for bereaved families

HYDERABAD: A passenger hospital where the injured chil- are normally aged nine or ten in train rammed into a school bus dren, some in a critical condition, India. in southern India yesterday kill- were taken. Some parents called “The train dragged the bus for ing 20 people, mostly young chil- for the sacking of senior railway 100 yards after the collision,” he dren, officials said in the latest officials over the tragedy. added. fatal accident on the country’s Railways minister Sadanand The train was travelling from rail network. Gowda blamed the bus driver for the city of Nanded in Maharashtra The train collided with the the tragedy, saying it appeared state to Hyderabad in neighbour- bus carrying about 30 children he did not stop at the crossing to ing Telangana. No one on the as it drove across an unmanned check for trains. train was badly injured, officials level crossing in the state of “As per the preliminary infor- said. Telangana, dragging the man- mation received, the incident Prime Minister Narendra gled vehicle down the tracks, occurred due to the negligent Modi’s office expressed his con- officials said. driving by the driver of the school dolences to the families of those “There are 20 confirmed dead bus,” he told parliament. killed, adding in a tweet that he based on railway inputs. A lot of The children went to Kakatiya “prays for the speedy recovery of people who are critically injured Techno School, in the nearby those injured.” were shifted to different hos- town of Toopran. Railways minister Gowda pitals,” K Samba Siva Rao, a The school teaches children as announced `200,000 ($3,300) in spokesman for South Central young as two and a half years old, compensation for the families of Railway, said. according to its website. those killed. The bus had been travelling to Local police deputy inspector Deadly train accidents are school when the accident occurred general N Suryanaarayana said common on India’s railways, in the village of Masaipet about 62 “12 students along with the driver whose vast and rundown network kilometres (38 miles) from state died on the spot.” carries tens of millions of people capital Hyderabad. “The cause of the accident and daily. Large crowds poured over whose mistake it is we are inves- In 2012 a government report the accident site in Medak tigating,” he said. said almost 15,000 people were district trying to move twisted However railway official Rao killed every year on the net- metal to retrieve small bodies said 20 people were confirmed work, describing the deaths as an trapped inside, television foot- dead, a figure backed up by annual “massacre” due mainly to age showed. an unnamed official from the poor safety standards. Parents who reached the site school. In May, 26 people were killed were seen wailing, crouched next “We know for a fact that 20 when a passenger express travel- to their dead children drapped in children have died so far. The ling in the northern state of Uttar white sheets. A small crane and a children were very young, from Pradesh ploughed into a station- digger tried to lift wreckage, while the nursery level to the sixth ary freight train. school bags were seen stacked standard,” the official told An express train ploughed into alongside the tracks. AFP from the site, his voice a crowd of Hindu pilgrims in east- Grieving and angry parents breaking. ern India in August last year, kill- Police and a family member carry the body of a school bus driver to an ambulance at the site of the collision also gathered outside a nearby Students in sixth standard ing 37. AFP between a school bus and a train at Thoopran Mandal of Medak District, about 58km from Hyderabad, yesterday.

PIL seeks Heavy rains in Ahmedabad action against Girl found hanging Shiv Sena MPs triggers revenge

NEW DELHI: A petition was NEW DELHI: A seven-year- last evening... Then this morning filed in the Delhi High Court old girl was found hanging from around 9:30, we were on our way yeserday seeking de-recognition a tree yesterday in a village in out and found the girl hanging of the Shiv Sena and direc- eastern India after locals sus- from a neem tree,” an unnamed tion for disqualification of 11 pect she was raped, police said, villager told NDTV news channel. of its MPs for allegedly forcing the latest in a string of reported Das said he could not confirm a Muslim staffer to eat at the attacks against children. whether the girl had in fact been Maharashtra Sadan during his Angry villagers sought revenge raped, saying he was waiting for Ramadan fast. after discovering the body in the post-mortem report. The PIL filed by NGO Garib West Bengal state, hunting down India is especially sensitive to Nawaz Foundation also sought and attacking three men they cases of sexual violence after the immediate arrest of MPs for accused of kidnapping, raping 2012 fatal gang-rape of a student provoking religious sentiments and murdering the girl, a police on a moving bus in New Delhi, against the minority community. officer said. which led to a public outcry and It also sought initiation of “I am at a local hospital for the tougher laws to deter rapists. criminal case against the MPs girl’s post-mortem while those The incident in West Bengal including Sanjay Rout and Rajan three suspects are also admitted comes after two girls, aged 12 and Vichare, who represents Thane at another hospital with serious 14, were gang-raped and lynched Lok Sabha seat, and asked for injuries,” sub-inspector Shankar in late May in northern Uttar direction to the Lok Sabha Das said by phone. Pradesh state, sparking renewed speaker and the Rajya Sabha “The situation in the local area outrage. chairman to disqualify 11 of its where the incident happened is In the southern city of lawmakers. tense,” Das said, referring to the Bangalore, the alleged rape of a It has been alleged that on villagers who were demanding six-year-old girl in a school this July 17, Vichare, irked over the that the suspects also be hanged. month triggered a series of street poor quality of food, force-fed Local media reported that one protests by angry parents and Indian Railway Catering and A municipal worker sits in a cart next to a choked manhole on a flooded street after heavy rains in the western of the suspects had died from political activists. Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Indian city of Ahmedabad yesterday. injuries sustained in the attack India’s new Prime Minister employee Arshad Zubair, who by villagers, but this could not be Narendra Modi has promised was Maharashtra Sadan catering confirmed. “zero tolerance” toward crimes supervisor, before some television The girl had gone missing close against women. cameras. The IRCTC was provid- to her home in the state’s East But violence against women ing food for Maharashtra Sadan. Midnapore district on Wednesday is deeply engrained in some seg- The PIL said: “The action of the evening, sparking a search by her ments of Indian society, activists Shiv Sena MPs with the fasting SC declines transfer plea of concerned family and villagers, say, while government crime sta- Muslim supervisor was uncalled police said. tistics show one rape is reported for and needed to be dealt with a “We couldn’t find the girl since every 21 minutes. strict action by party chief Udhav Thackeray.” Narmada Bachao Andolan The petition, which is likely to come up for hearing on July 30, NEW DELHI: The Supreme raising the height of the dam, the meet its disinvestment target. also sought a direction to the cen- Court yesterday declined the NBA, instead of approaching the “When you look at disinvest- tral government to order a high Narmada Control Authority’s apex court, has moved an appli- ment and the NDA, when you jux- Three prisoners killed level probe into the incident by a plea seeking the transfer to it cation before the Jabalpur High tapose those two phases together, special investigation team headed the Narmada Bachao Andolan’s Court challenging the NCA June lot of questions arise. The track by a sitting high court judge. plea challenging the decision 12 decision to raise the height of record of the NDA government in Rajasthan jail clash “Forcefully shoving a ‘chapati’ to raise the height of Sardar the dam, he said. in its previous time in office... we by MPs was a cowardly act as Sarovar Dam that will be taken At this the court inquired if the had raised lot of questions and is a they are representatives of the up for hearing by Jabalpur High apex court in its 2006 judgment matter which left most of us with JAIPUR: Three prisoners Banuda’s other accomplices people and are elected by the peo- Court today. had the issue that the height of deep dissatisfaction,” he said. were killed - one gunned down then beat Jaiprakash and his ple for their service and not for Declining the plea, a bench the dam could be increased to 138 Gowda said there were and two others beaten to death aide Rampal to death,” said the provoking religious sentiments,” of Justice TS Thakur, Justice C. m, but Rohatgi said that they (the instances during the previous - in a clash between mem- officer. said the plea. Nagappan and Justice Adarsh NCA) were before the court in National Democratic Alliance bers of two gangs in a jail in The officer added that jail Meanwhile, Minority Affairs Kumar Goel said that since the connection with work that had (NDA) government when “mul- Rajasthan’s Bikaner yesterday, superintendent Surendra Singh Minister Najma Heptula plea sought to be transferred to nothing to do with the decision tiple hotels were sold”. police said. has been suspended. Thursday said several schemes apex court relates to the compli- to raise the height of the dam. He said one could sell shares According to police, the inci- Meanwhile in Kolkata, a were under consideration to ance of the high court’s order, The court said that it would to the public and make peo- dent took place around 6 p.m. woman college student suffered help minority communities in then the latter should deal with it hear the matter on Aug 4 after ple stakeholders in essentially a at the Central Jail in Bikaner, grievous injuries yesterday in all states. She said her ministry and sought to know why it should Rohatgi told the court that this government owned company or around 500 km from Jaipur. an acid attack by an unidenti- was considering schemes called it be brought here. plea was listed on that day for one could sell out the company “The incident was the fallout of fied assailant inside her home in “Ustaad”, “Hamari Dharohar” Attorney General Mukul hearing. altogether. an old rivalry between two gangs. West Bengal’s Burdwan district, and “Nai Manzil”. Rohatgi told the court that an Meanwhile, the Congress yes- “During the NDA years, they Those who were killed were police said. “Ustaad aims at upgrading application filed by the Narmada terday cautioned the government focused on outright sale... that identified as Balbeer Banuda, The crime took place in skills and training in preserva- Bachao Andolan before the high over the process it will adopt to philosophy may recur again. Jaiprakash and Rampal,” said a Parapukur area of Burdwan town. tion of traditional ancestral arts/ court has sought to put on hold meet its disinvestment targets, When an outright sale was done, police officer. When the door bell rang crafts of minorities, while Hamari the June 12 decision of the NCA saying the record of the previous in most instances, there were lot Jaiprakash allegedly opened fire around 10 am, the woman - who Dharohar aims to preserve the permitting raising the height of NDA government had left people of questions about under-valua- at Banuda when they were lodged was alone at home then - opened rich heritage of minority com- the Sardar Sarovar Dam from with “deep dissatisfaction”. tion, there were questions about in the same barracks. the door. The assailant hurled the munities. Nai Manzil is a course existing 121.9 m to 138.7 m. Congress spokesperson Rajeev sweet-heart deal and there were “Banuda died on the spot, while acid and ran away. to bridge the academic and skill After the apex court had said Gowda told reporters here it was questions about negligence in his aide Anand Pal Singh, who is a The student was admitted at development gaps of Madrasa in 2006 that it was not inclined to not yet clear how the Bharatiya terms of assets of the companies,” known criminal, sustained bullet the Burdwan Medical College passouts,” Heptulla said. IANS restrain the continuing work of Janata Party-led government will he said. IANS injuries on his shoulder. Hospital. IANS FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Qatar bourse tumbles on lacklustre earnings DOHA: Qatar bourse tum- announced their financial results. to achieving a status upgrade to 9.91 percent and Ezdan fell by 7.41 rose to QR812mn compared to the past week by 5.07 percent to bled yesterday on weaker-than Some blue chips delivered really ‘Emerging’ market and inclusion percent dragging the real estate Wednesday’s QR628 m. total vol- QR3.4bn compared to the pre- expected company earnings, lackluster results. As usual, local in the MSCI Emerging Markets sector index down 6.11 percent. ume rose to over 18 million shares vious week’s QR3.6bn. Trading coupled by heavy sell-off by retail investors dabbled in profit Index. However, its not likely to The banking sector fell by 1.45 from 14 million shares. volume decreased by 6.14 percent, local retail investors ahead of taking as they need liquidity or happen before 2017. Currently, percent as Masraf Al Rayan shed In the past week, the main while the number of transactions Eid holidays. cash ahead of Eid holidays. The MSCI has not assigned any spe- 4.63 percent and International index fell by 2.50 percent or rose by 8.22 percent. The main index sharply edged announcement that Saudi bourse cific category to Saudi Arabia”, Islamic shed 2.58 percent. Except 331.83 points. The week saw The UDC led trading value lower 1.79 percent (236.74 points) will open up its doors to direct analysts at Global Investment Insurance index, which was mar- market cap falling by 2.97 per- during the past week accounting to finish at 12,952 point. foreign investment is also not House noted yesterday ginally up by 0.46 percent, all cent. The Banks and Financial for 11.14 percent of the total value, Over QR 11bn just vanished good news for Qatari market, Real Estate powerhouses the sector indices ended in red Services sector led trading value followed by Masraf Al Rayan, from the market yesterday, as analysts said. Barwa and Ezdan; Masraf Al yesterday. by recording QR957m, followed which accounted for 10.78 per- the market cap slipped to QR693 “Allowing direct foreign Rayan, International Islamic However, both the value and by real estate (QR923m) and the cent. The Barwa ranked third , from Wednesday’s QR704bn. investment in the Saudi stock and Vodafone were the among volume was higher than the pre- Industrials (QR656m). Overall, accounting for 8.73 percent. Of the 43 listed companies, 30 exchange brings the KSA closer the top losers. Barwa tanked by vious session. Total traded value the trading value decreased in THE PENINSULA

BMW i8 Supercar IMF lowers global growth forecast Sanctions against Russia risk ‘impact’ on region

WASHINGTON: The forecast by 1.1 percentage point, International Monetary Fund to 0.2 percent, saying “activity in warned yesterday that geopo- Russia decelerated sharply as geo- litical risks in Ukraine and the political tensions further weak- Middle East are looming over a ened demand.” global economy already hit by Separately, IMF spokesman slowdowns in the US and China. William Murray warned the After “negative surprises” from sanctions could have a severe the United States and China, the impact on trade in the region, global economy is now expected “particularly in eastern and cen- to grow only 3.4 percent this year, tral Europe and central Asia.” the IMF said, lowering its April As for the United States, the estimate of 3.7 percent. world’s largest economy, IMF In 2013, the world economy on Wednesday lowered its 2014 The BMW i8 car on display during a promotional event on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, yesterday. German grew 3.2 percent. The downgraded growth forecast to 1.7 percent, carmaker BMW’s new hybrid petrol-electric i8 supercar, which has a body of largely carbon fibre and features 2014 growth outlook reflects a from 2.0 percent in mid-June and acceleration of sports vehicles but gets more than one hundred miles per gallon, will be manufactured in “weak first quarter, particularly in 2.8 percent in April. Washington. the United States, and a less opti- The US economy, accounting mistic outlook for several emerg- for nearly a quarter of the world’s ing markets,” the IMF said in an Chief Economist of IMF, Olivier output, shrunk by 2.9 percent in update of its semiannual World Blanchard, speaks during the the first quarter, in part because US stocks rise after China, Europe data Economic Outlook (WEO). presentation of the report ‘Global of severe winter weather. “Geopolitical risks have risen Economic Perspectives’, in Mexico “It’s really a story of some- relative to April: risks of an thing which has just happened NEW YORK: US stocks yes- The tech-rich Nasdaq conditions said the PMI for the City yesterday. oil price spike are higher due and that is behind us,” said terday opened higher follow- Composite Index rose 11.25 (0.25 18-nation bloc rose to 54.0 in July to recent developments in the Olivier Blanchard, the IMF’s ing improved economic data in percent) to 4,484.95. from 52.8 in June. Middle East while those related MH17 over rebel-held territory chief economist, in discussing China and Europe and another Banking giant HSBC said its Briefing.com analyst Patrick to Ukraine are still present.” in eastern Ukraine that killed all the WEO update. The IMF pro- round of generally good corpo- preliminary purchasing manag- O’Hare said the majority of the Heavyweight oil producer Iraq 298 people aboard. jected US growth will pick up in rate earnings reports, espe- ers index (PMI) of manufacturing latest batch of earnings has been is under siege from an Islamist Russia, the target of US and the remainder of the year, but not cially from thriving Facebook. activity in China rose to 52.0 in “better than expected.” offensive, and fierce fighting European Union economic sanc- enough to offset the first-quarter Five minutes into trade, the July from 50.7 in June, hitting an Facebook was a standout, rising between Israel and Palestinians in tions for its role in the separa- drag. China, the world’s second- Dow Jones Industrial Average 18-month high and boosting hopes 6.2 percent after second-quarter Gaza has raged for more than two tist fighting, was likely to see its largest economy, will expand less edged up 4.72 points (0.03 per- for stronger growth in the world’s profits more than doubled to $791 weeks. The Ukraine crisis was economy brought to the brink of than previously thought, the IMF cent) to 17,091.35, while the S&P number-two economy. million behind growth in ads on exacerbated by the downing last recession this year, the IMF said. said, lowering its forecast to 7.4 500 gained 2.69 (0.14 percent) to A survey by research firm mobile devices. week of Malaysia Airlines flight It slashed its Russian growth percent from 7.6 percent. AFP 1,989.70. Markit of eurozone business AFP

Wal-Mart Nokia’s fortunes brighten on heavy network spending replaces chief HELSINKI: Finnish telecom loss of ¤226m at the same time a gain of 7.78 percent to 6.16 euros business as a turnaround special- high-speed mobile phone equip- of US division equipment group Nokia jumped last year. The results surprised in mid-afternoon trading. The ist, oversaw an increase in the ment. Suri said in a statement back into profit in the second the market with an unexpectedly overall Finish stock market was value of the telecom networks yesterday that the technology NEW YORK: US retail giant quarter by focusing on its net- rapid recovery based on network ahead by 0.64 percent. business to the tune of about eight networks division “has allowed us Wal-Mart Stores yesterday works business, the company technology. The group is focusing on its billion euros ($11bn) according to deliver strong profitability while announced it is replacing the said yesterday, in a re-birth But sales fell by nearly 7.0 per- information networks exper- to a biography published on the improving our topline trend.” head of its Walmart US divi- after losing its leading position cent to ¤2.942bn, although this tise and on its data technologies group’s website. He said: “Maintaining this sion, which has had declin- in mobile phones. was in line with the overall expec- as announced last April, when The move to strengthen the balance will remain a clear pri- ing same-store sales in recent The group, which recently sold tations of analysts polled by Dow former Nokia Solutions and networks division coincides with ority in the second half of the quarters. its phone division to Microsoft, Jones Newswires. Networks head Rajeev Suri was a moment when mobile data year when we expect networks to Greg Foran, 53, currently reported a net profit for the quar- The strong turnaround boosted appointed chief executive. traffic is surging as the world’s return to year-on-year growth. head of Walmart Asia, will lead ter of ¤2.51bn ($3.38bn), from a Nokia shares which were showing Suri, who is known in the IT largest operators are investing in AFP the Walmart US division start- ing August 9, reporting to chief executive Doug McMillon, the company announced. Takeover offer Foran will replace Bill Simon, Gold hits 1-month low who has held the post since June 2010 and “will be transitioning out of the company,” Wal-Mart NEW YORK/LONDON: Gold attention from the clashes in said. hit a one-month low yesterday Gaza between Hamas and Israel, “Greg is one of the most tal- after robust economic data from as well as the tensions in the ented retailers I’ve ever met. the United States, China and Crimean region after the sanc- His depth of knowledge and glo- the euro zone deterred inves- tions on Russia and the downing bal experience will bring a fresh tors from safe-haven assets, of a Malaysian passenger jet, that perspective to our business,” even as tensions simmered in sent bullion rallying last week. McMillon said. the Middle East and Ukraine. “To be fair, I think some peo- Foran joined Wal-Mart in Prices for the yellow metal fell 1 ple have a right to be disap- 2011 after previously working at percent to below $1,300 an ounce pointed that the stresses around Woolworths, a leading supermar- as the dollar and stock markets the world haven’t led to a con- ket group in Australia and New rose on surprisingly low weekly tinued rise in the price of gold,” Zealand. jobless claims and robust corpo- said Adam Hewison, president The US division, which rate earnings out of the United at Marketclub.com in Annapolis, accounts for about 60 percent States. Maryland. “We’re probably in of Wal-Mart’s overall revenues, Data from Europe showed the oversold territory right now had declining comparable store services sector in the 18-member where gold is concerned, but we sales of 0.1 percent in the most euro zone performing better than also seem to be pulling into an recent quarter, after a 0.4 percent A woman walks past a Club Med travel agency in Paris yesterday. Club Mediterranee’s board of directors will meet any forecast from 39 economists area between $1,290 and $1,280 decline in the previous quarter. today to decide whether to back a takeover offer for the holidays group from top shareholder Andrea Bonomi. in a Reuters poll. that should offer some support to AFP All that diverted investor the market.” REUTERS FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Barley season Dubai Islamic GM profits Bank beats estimates with hit by recall 59.6pc Q2 gain DUBAI: Emirates’ largest Shariah-compliant lender, posted a 59.6 percent jump in second-quarter net problems profit yesterday, aided by higher fee and investment income. Europe drives Ford higher Beating analysts’ forecasts, the bank made Dh667.5m ($181.8m) NEW YORK: General Motors call, acknowledged the recalls in the three months to June 30, is crying and Ford is laughing: “put pressure on GM.” it said in a bourse filing, up from The top US automakers posted “Nevertheless, we remain prof- Dh418.2m in the corresponding wildly different earnings yes- itable. We have addressed the period of 2013. terday, the first hurt by recalls, major outstanding issues,” he said. The average forecast the second lifted by new cash The automaker is under federal of four analysts polled by from Europe. and congressional investigations, Reuters was for a net profit The stock market told the tale: and faces multiple lawsuits for the of Dh627.3m. GM shares plunged 3.7 percent to delayed ignition-switch recall. The result continues a positive $36.03 in afternoon trade, while GM’s main US rival Ford sees earnings reporting season for Ford rose 0.8 percent to $17.93. a slightly smoother road ahead, banks in the UAE, whose profits GM, America’s largest auto- especially in Europe, where it have jumped in recent quarters maker, saw heavy charges related scored its first profit in three A French farmer drives an old US combine, dating back to the 1950’s, as he harvests barley in a field in Sancourt, because of a growing domestic to its recall of faulty models push years: $14m compared with a near Cambrai, northern France, yesterday. economy and improved asset its second-quarter its profit down $306m loss a year ago. quality. to $190m, a hefty 85 percent drop The only one of the three US At the end of last decade, from a year ago. automakers to escape bank- corporate debt problems and a Ford Motor Company, by con- ruptcy in 2009, Ford is focused on real estate market crash slashed trast, posted a 6.3 percent rise returning to full-year profitability banks’ profits. in profit to $1.31bn in the sec- in Europe in 2015. Bentley lowers sales growth Fellow Dubai lender Emirates ond quarter, helped by its first The rise in second-quarter NBD posted a 34.8 percent profit from European operations profit to $1.31 billion was largely increase in its second-quarter in three years. GM, embroiled due to North America and China, net profit yesterday, while the in scandal over a long-delayed its most important markets. expectations, plans expansion majority of banks in Abu Dhabi recall of cars with faulty ignition Ford’s goal is based on cost recorded double-digit profit switches that caused at least 13 reduction in a deep restructur- LONDON: Luxury carmaker year after first-half sales rose by 95-year history. growth for the three months to deaths, saw higher costs in the ing strategy dubbed One Ford. Bentley expects to increase almost a quarter to 5,254 saloons, Duerheimer said that about 700 June 30. second quarter and prepared for For example, Ford is building its sales volumes this year by coupes and convertibles, thanks of Bentley’s 3,700 workers at a fac- DIB’s earnings were boosted more pain to come. vehicles on five model bases, as less than previously forecast, to demand from China and the tory in Crewe, central England, by a 34.5 percent increase in Earnings were hit by a $1.2bn opposed to nine previously. Chief Executive Wolfgang Middle East. would not work on Fridays for income from commissions, charge mainly for recall-related The only cloud on the horizon is Duerheimer said yesterday as Though the carmaker has not several weeks from the autumn fees and foreign exchange, as repairs of vehicles. the Ford-Sollers joint venture in he outlined dealership expan- made public its previous pro- until Christmas to reflect the well as hikes in revenue gener- GM said it recalled about 22 Russia, which plans to eliminate sion plans and a potential new duction forecast, it has said it projected cut in volumes on the ated from property and other million vehicles in the second 700 jobs due to a sharp slowdown model. expected sales to reach 15,000 in Continental model line. investments. quarter, bringing the first half in the Russian market. Ford took Duerheimer, who took charge 2018, including a new sport-utility Despite the slightly more con- The lender, which completed total to roughly 29 million. a $329m charge for the job cuts. of the Volkswagen-owned luxury vehicle (SUV) that Bentley plans servative estimates, Bentley said the purchase of a 24.9 percent For the first time, GM took a The company, which is fore- marque on June 1, told reporters to launch in 2016. it aims to broaden the brand’s stake in Indonesian lender Bank special charge of $400m for the casting 2014 profit in a range of in London that previous sales esti- Factors behind the lowering of appeal and reach with new deal- Panin Syariah in June, was also compensation program for vic- $7 to $8bn, is concentrating its mates had proved too optimistic. expectations for this year include erships in some of its biggest mar- aided by a 13.3 percent year-on- tims of faulty ignition switches on efforts on the launch of new prod- “Maybe the forecast from last a smaller increase in demand kets from North America to Asia, year reduction in loan impair- 2.6 million cars, about a decade ucts, such as the next-generation year and the beginning of this from China and the impact from including plush new showrooms in ments, which dropped to 160.3 after the company first discovered F-150 pickup truck, and its sales year was too aggressive, but I the crisis in Ukraine and Russia, the likes of Dubai, Shanghai and million dirhams in the second the problem. campaign in China. still predict double-digit (sales Duerheimer said. Munich. quarter. The company has put attorney In China, now the world’s larg- volume) growth in 2014,” he said, But the former R&D chief at Moscow, too, has been ear- Customer deposits stood Kenneth Feinberg in charge of est auto market, Ford increased adding that the first half of the VW’s Audi and Porsche premium marked for one of the new deal- at 94.8 billion dirhams at the the compensation program, which its market share but still tailgates year’s 61 percent sales growth in divisions, now in his second stint erships, with the company as end of June, up 20 percent on starts August 1. Feinberg has said Germany’s Volkswagen, the leader, China, Daimler’s second-biggest at Britain-based Bentley, said that yet undaunted by the threat of the end of 2013, while total that the fund will pay at least $1 and US rival GM. Although the market, was always going to be full-year volumes, turnover and tougher EU and U.S. sanctions loans were 18 percent higher million for each fatality. recall costs for GM were large, difficult to maintain. profit would still be up on 2013, against Russia and some of its over the same timeframe at GM chief executive Mary its underlying sales performance Bentley had said that 2014 was which saw the carmaker post wealthy businessmen in response Dh66.1bn. Barra, in an earnings conference improved. AFP on course to be the brand’s best the highest sales and profit in its to the Ukraine crisis. REUTERS REUTERS

Roasters’ favourite Hershey warns of sticker shock from chocolate price hike

NEW YORK: Hershey Co, the fourth quarter and into 2015. there was slight growth, accord- one of the world’s best known Hershey announced its price ing to data from Euromonitor names in chocolate, expects its increase on July 15, saying it was International. In contrast, world first price hike in three years in response to soaring cocoa and consumption has increased. to crimp short term sales, but dairy prices. The hike comes at This is in part because of the over the long haul the popular- a critical time for candy makers, increasing popularity of pre- ity of chocolate will prevail, the as some of the world’s best known mium products and bite-size company’s chief executive said brands are fighting for U.S. con- chocolates that weigh less than yesterday. sumers in a shrinking market. many chocolate bars. Global President and CEO John One of Hershey’s biggest com- demand is increasing and there Bilbrey said the 120-year-old petitors Mars Chocolate North are reports that prices are getting maker of Hershey Kisses and America said on Wednesday it higher because cocoa farmers are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups will be was raising prices 7 percent. not going to be able to increase particularly alert to any reduction Three months ago, Swiss-based production enough to meet the in sales caused by the increase, Nestle SA, the world’s biggest demand for chocolate. which averaged 8 percent, among confectionery business, warned In its results, Hershey said low income consumers. of price changes. full-year net sales were expected Bilbrey told analysts on a con- But Swiss chocolate maker to rise around the low end of its ference call to discuss second- Lindt & Spruengli has said its long-term target of 5 to 7 per- quarter financial results that main priority was to gain market cent and growth in its candy and in the past many consumers share globally by absorbing some mint category would be around A worker sorts coffee berries at a factory in Kienjege, northwest of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, yesterday. Kenya adjusted to higher prices “over commodity price increases. 3 percent in 2014, slightly below is a relatively small producer of coffee, but its beans are much sought after by roasters to blend with those of time,” but he said more expensive U.S. demand for chocolate has the long-term projection of 3 to 4 lower quality from other producing countries. chocolate would lower volume for declined annually since 2006, percent. the rest of the year, primarily in with the exception of 2013 when REUTERS Emirates NBD trims 2014 loan growth guidance to 4-5pc

DUBAI: Emirates NBD intense competition in the mar- Emirates have been enjoying ($357 million) of profit in the also came despite another signifi- at end-June, up from 52.7 percent trimmed its 2014 loan growth ket,” Subramanian said. ENBD’s bumper profits in recent quarters three months to June 30, up from cant jump in provisioning, which at the same point of 2013 and 4 forecast but raised its expec- total loans grew just 1.4 percent as the sector benefits from strong 972 million dirhams in the same leapt 35 percent year-on-year percentage points higher than tations for how much lending since the end of last year. domestic economic conditions. A period last year. The figure was to Dh1.35bn. Impairments have the figure at the end of the first would earn it this year after Despite the reduction in the poll of economists expects GDP well ahead of the consensus view been a major drag on the bank’s quarter. reporting an estimate-beating amount of lending it expected growth this year of 4.3 percent of analysts polled by Reuters, who profits in recent years as the Chief executive Shayne Nelson 34.8 percent jump in second- to do, ENBD raised its forecast in the UAE. expected ENBD to make 1.09 bil- bank suffered from its exposures had said in April that the buoyant quarter net profit yesterday. for net interest margin, or NIM However, with 52 banks operat- lion dirhams in the quarter. to the debt of local sovereign- local economy would allow it to Dubai’s largest lender expects • the amount it makes on its ing in the Gulf Arab nation, com- The bank’s stock rose 4.2 per- linked firms that were forced to keep boosting profits and its bad to see its lending grow by 4 to 5 lending above the original cost of petition is fierce and lenders have cent against a 0.3 percent decline restructure and the local property loan coverage ratios without the percent this year, finance head funds - to 2.7 to 2.8 percent from been looking to diversify away for the wider Dubai market. market, which crashed at the end need for severe provisioning. Surya Subramanian told report- 2.5 to 2.6 percent. from traditional revenue streams, Profit was boosted by strong of the last decade but which has Despite the large hike in provi- ers on a results call. This is down Subramanian said NIMs had dominated by local lending, into year-on-year growth in both rebounded in the last two years. sions in the latest results, Nelson from the 7-8 percent that the stabilised around their current fee-based services and through net interest income, up 21.6 per- Much of the provisioning in said he was happy with the bank’s bank forecast at the start of the level of 2.77 percent, despite com- acquisitions in other countries. cent to 2.33 billion dirhams, and the last two quarters has been current performance, which was year. petitive pressures, enabling the ENBD, which bought BNP non-interest income, 37 percent towards boosting the bank’s bad allowing it to address any con- “This change is made consider- bank to revise up its guidance. Paribas’s Egyptian business last higher at 1.38 billion dirhams. loans coverage ratios. cerns it was facing due to legacy ing current lending levels and the Banks in the United Arab year, made 1.31 billion dirhams ENBD’s higher quarterly profit This improved to 64.7 percent issues. REUTERS FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

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I want to be that leader on Lampard likes the city and the time top scorer Frank Lampard and Chelsea that I moved on,” and off the pitch. team’s long-term plans to become yesterday announced that he Lampard said. “I’m coming to a great city and an MLS contender, with signings had signed a two-year contract “Chelsea will always have a I want to show that I can play already drawing comparisons to with Major League Soccer fran- huge part in my heart. I wish great football and be a great per- the 1970s New York Cosmos and chise New York City FC, but his Chelsea the best.” sonality in the locker room. the city’s football glory days with England international future The Blues replied on Twitter, “I will fight to make NYCFC Pele and Franz Beckenbauer. remains uncertain. saying, “Wishing Frank Lampard a club that New Yorkers will be “Why not chose New York City? The 36-year-old midfielder the very best of luck in New York! proud of.” It’s a very exciting challenge for played for England last month in SuperFrank.” Lampard says he is ready for me in life terms,” Lampard said. the World Cup but says he has not Lampard joins a team that hotter, more humid conditions “I’ve seen a real long-term plan yet decided on his national team signed ex-Spain star David Villa playing in a US campaign that and I wanted to be part of that. I status. to a three-year deal last month runs from March to October. want to test myself.” “In terms of England, I’ve had and is guided by sporting director “I’ve played in hot and humid Lampard could follow a similar a bit of time after the World Cup, Claudio Reyna, a retired US star, conditions before,” Lampard said. path to that of Villa, who will play which was obviously a huge dis- and coached by Jason Kreis. “It’s a challenge I look forward to on loan at Australia’s Melbourne appointment,” Lampard, who has “Simply said he’s one of the and I know I will be able to take City before returning to New 106 international caps, said. greatest players in world history,” that on. I’ve been watching games York for whom training begins in “I now need to think about Reyna said. “He’s a professional. in the MLS for a long time back Febraury. England and think about what A leader. He ticked all the boxes home. It’s a great opportunity and “We’re going to use the rest of I want to do next. Now I know in terms of the qualities to help great challenge for me.” the week to make a decision that’s where I’ll be playing my foot- grow our team.” The club, a joint effort between best for the club in terms of get- ball next year I can make that Lampard called the US move a Major League Baseball’s New York ting him ready for 2015,” Reyna decision.” challenge to his talents instead of Yankees and English Premier said. Lampard scored 211 goals in 13 a risk to his legacy. League side Manchester City, Added Lampard: “I’m going to seasons at Chelsea where he won “It’s not a risk. It’s a challenge,” will launch its inaugural season keep fit. That is the main thing. Frank Lampard, who yesterday signed a two-year contract with Major three Premier League titles, four he said. “I will give everything to next year, playing out of Yankee How I do that is not clear yet. I’m FA Cups, two League Cups and be in the middle of that challenge. Stadium until a planned new park going to sit round with people at League Soccer franchise New York City FC. the 2012 Champions League. “I want to carry on challenging is completed. the club and sort that out.” AFP Man United crush Galaxy 7-0 in Van Gaal debut

PASADENA, United States: Three minutes later, Los of beautiful attacks.” final, drew a crowd of 86,432 and Louis van Gaal’s reign as man- Angeles defender Tommy Meyer The 62-year-old Dutchman was awash in red. ager of Manchester United failed to intercept Welbeck’s is tasked with restoring United United now move on to the got off to a rousing start on cross, giving Rooney another to their position as the Premier International Champions Cup, a Wednesday with a 7-0 friendly chance to beat Jaime Penedo and League’s preeminent force after collection of pre-season matches victory over Major League he tapped home his second of the they endured a miserable cam- featuring eight European clubs all Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy. night. paign last season that saw them preparing for the start of their England striker Wayne Rooney With a 3-0 lead over a Galaxy finish seventh and fail to qualify domestic campaigns. scored twice in the first half, team currently lying fourth in for the Champions League. Manchester United will play while 20-year-old Reece James Major League Soccer’s Western Van Gaal was particularly AS Roma on Saturday in Denver, and Ashley Young also contrib- Conference, van Gaal made nine pleased at a result that will give meet Inter Milan on July 29 in uted two goals apiece and Danny changes to his side at halftime. his players confidence in the new Washington and face Real Madrid Welbeck scored to make van The only two starters to remain system he is instituting, which he on August 2 in suburban Detroit Gaal’s first match at the helm a in the game were recent sign- believes will let him make better where a sold-out Michigan resounding triumph. ing Ander Herrera and Darren use of his depth of striker talent. Stadium crowd will number some “It’s fantastic how they played Fletcher, who was given the cap- “I think always the results 110,000 — projected to be the larg- today,” said van Gaal, who was tain’s armband as van Gaal pon- do matter,” he said. “When I est US crowd ever for the sport. tapped two months ago to replace ders who will be take that role am introducing a new system Galaxy coach Bruce Arena will the sacked David Moyes at the full-time after the departure of then every good result helps... it now have to get his team over the English Premier League club, but Nemanja Vidic for Inter Milan. helps build confidence in the new lopsided defeat and ready to take took the reins only after guiding James made it 4-0 in the 62nd system.” on MLS rivals Seattle on Monday the Netherlands to a third-place minute, seizing on a cross from While van Gaal has expressed as their regular season continues. finish at the World Cup. Young and firing home. doubts that a North American “I have nothing but the greatest After Welbeck opened the He added a second goal in the tour of more than two weeks is respect for the show that Man U scoring in the 13th minute with 84th, putting away the rebound of the best way to prepare for the put on,” Arena said. a 25-yard strike that crashed in a shot by Young. upcoming season, there was no “First half I don’t think was off the post, Rooney doubled the “When you see us train, you question that California fans a 3-0 game but being as profes- score when he converted a penalty can expect something, but not were thrilled to get a chance to sional as they are and the quality Manchester United players celebrate with goal-scorer Reece James in the 42nd minute after Galaxy 7-0,” van Gaal said. “That was, see Manchester United in action. that they had they punished us (centre) during their Chevrolet Cup match at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, midfielder A.J. Delagarza handled for me a surprise. And they were The picturesque Rose Bowl sta- on every mistake. So it’s a good California, on Wednesday. a cross from Antonio Valencia. also beautiful goals. We scored out dium, site of the 1994 World Cup lesson for all players.” AFP Suarez could debut in El Clasico France green lights vanishing spray

MADRID: Disgraced Uruguay after his suspension ends. PARIS: The French Football the very highest level. striker Luis Suarez, who is serv- The 27-year-old was given a Opening round of Federation (FFF) have agreed “We have adopted (the use ing a four-month ban for a bit- nine-match international ban and to adopt the use of spray, to of) spray, for Ligue 1, Ligue 2, ing incident at the World Cup, suspended for four months from La Liga fixtures fix distances for free-kicks and the National championship and could make his Barcelona debut any football-related activities by their walls, at top level matches women’s first division. This deci- against Real Madrid in an El world soccer’s ruling body FIFA (August 24) around the country this sea- sion will be applied for the start Clasico in October. after biting Italy defender Giorgio Sevilla vs Valencia son, president Noel Le Graet of the season,” read Le Graet’s La Liga announced its fixtures Chiellini in a Group D game in Levante vs Villarreal announced yesterday. statement. for the season yesterday and the Brazil in June. Earlier this month, Barcelona vs Elche The highly popular practice, The innovation, that keeps first meeting of the two Spanish Suarez was transferred from Granada vs Deportivo La Coruna which sees officials spray the walls at the madatory 9.15m (10 giants will be on the weekend of Liverpool to Barca for a fee that Rayo Vallecano vs Atletico Madrid pitch with a white substance to yards), will also be used at French October 25-26 at Real’s Bernabeu media reports put at 81m euros. Eibar vs Real Sociedad keep walls at correct distance and Cup matches from the round of Australian referee Benjamin Jon stadium. After an initial appeal against Real Madrid vs Cordoba also reduce the approachment of 32 for men and from the round of Williams uses a spray can to mark However, Suarez would only the biting ban was rejected, Barca Celta Vigo vs Getafe the ball placing, was a revelation 16 for women. The white mousse the field for a free kick during a Almería vs Espanyol be able to play if the match went decided to go to the Court of at the recent World Cup in Brazil disappears after approximately a World Cup. ahead on Sunday the 26th, the day Arbitration for Sport. REUTERS Malaga vs Athletic Bilbao where the idea was first used at minute. AFP Massa Rosberg, Hamilton in fine balancing act Perez certain miffed at BUDAPEST: Nico Rosberg and 2013, Hamilton could over- Mexico GP yesterday addressed the delicate haul Michael Schumacher as balancing act he and Mercedes the most successful driver at the stewards team-mate Lewis Hamilton Hungarian Grand Prix if he wins will go ahead BUDAPEST: Felipe Massa yes- face in fighting their duel for again. terday expressed his disappoint- the drivers’ title but at the “I don’t really have an answer BUDAPEST: Sergio Perez yes- ment with the current standard same time racing for the same as to why things have gone so well terday said he is certain that of stewarding in Formula One employer. here over the years,” he added. the Mexican Grand Prix will not after rookie Kevin Magnussen As Hamilton, seeking to com- “It’s a great circuit. I really do drop off the 2015 Formula One was cleared of all blame in their plete a hat-trick for a record fifth enjoy driving it. Maybe it does suit calendar as it did for 2014. collision at the German Grand win in the Hungarian Grand Prix my driving style more than per- Mexico is due to return as a Prix last weekend. this weekend, rejected all sugges- haps some other circuits. host venue next year after a After the collision at the open- tions that he would start the race “Or maybe it’s luck I don’t 23-year absence, following an ing corner on lap one, Massa as favourite, Rosberg was in full know. Let’s see this weekend. As announcement made in Mexico blamed Dane Magnussen of diplomatic mode. you know I’ve not had a lot of luck City on Wednesday. McLaren and asked other inexpe- “We need to find the balance Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg this year. If I’m still up ahead then Perez, who races for Force rienced drivers to be less reckless. because in the first instance we’re you know it’s not luck and it’s India, said: “I am 100 per cent But speaking after learn- racing for Mercedes, representing not because then we’ll be taking “It’s not any more important than down to driving style.” sure that we will go to Mexico ing Magnussen was regarded as Mercedes and want to do a good each other out if we change it any other race,” he said. “I take Hamilton was relaxed and phil- next year. blameless, ahead of this week- job for them,” said Rosberg. anymore. So hopefully not. I don’t every race as seriously as any osophical yesterday amid reports “I have no doubt about that. end’s Hungarian Grand Prix, he “We’re also representing the think so.” other. that his Mercedes team have con- Everything was confirmed last said: “So you see there is a lot to thousand plus people — my col- Looking ahead to this week- “This race is an opportunity to sidered approaching four-time year, but it was a very difficult improve — even in the FIA. If the leagues — at the factory who have end’s contest, Rosberg stressed gain. I’m chasing, I’ve been on the world champion Sebastian Vettel situation due to the time we had stewards are thinking like that, I families who depend on us. So we he wants only to build on his back foot since race one and I’m to join them. to build the circuit. don’t know who they are taking to need to work as a team, but there 14-point lead over Hamilton in enjoying that battle. According to the Formula “But now there is no doubt. We be stewards to be honest.” comes a point where you want to the title race. “If I can close up the gap at all One ‘silly season’ rumour mill, all can think that we are going Asked if he wanted to speak beat the other guy. It’s a fine line.” “I’m just here to extend my this weekend then that would be a the German manufacturer has there, and already they are build- to the sport’s ruling body, Asked if their respectful, com- championship lead. That’s the huge positive going into the break sounded out Vettel about his ing the circuit. the International Motoring petitive relationship might change goal and it ends there, there’s and into the second half of the future and may wish to line the “They are starting to work on Federation, about their stewards, once Mercedes have won the con- nothing else beyond that.” season when it’s time to attack.” German up alongside compatriot the circuit, so we are definitely he said: “Yeah.” AFP structors’ title, he said: “Hopefully Hamilton said much the same. Having won in 2007, 2009, 2012 Nico Rosberg. AGENCIES going there,” he said. AFP FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Ton-up Jayawardene shows class against South Africa Steyn strikes early but 37-year-old rescues hosts by smashing 34th Test century

COLOMBO: The retiring The prolific left-hander tried Mahela Jayawardene showed to pull a short delivery, but suc- what Sri Lanka would be miss- ceeded only in top-edging it ing as he smashed an unbeaten tamely to square leg where Imran 140 on the first day of the series- Tahir took an easy catch. deciding second Test against Sri Lanka would have been South Africa yesterday. in deeper trouble but Alviro Jayawardene, 37, came in to bat Petersen dropped Silva on 10, fail- when Sri Lanka were reeling at ing to judge which way the ball 16-2 but the stylish right-hander was going while fielding in the batted through for more that six slips, with Philander being the hours to take his side to 305-5 at unlucky bowler. stumps. Jayawardene, playing at his This was Jayawardene’s 11th home ground, displayed sublime century at the ground, the most form, once hitting Steyn for two by any batsman at a single venue. fours in an over and lofting Tahir He also joined India’s Sunil over the mid-off for a huge six. Gavaskar and Brian Lara of the He hugged Mathews on reach- West Indies at tied fifth on the list ing the three-figure mark and of highest Test century makers, waved to the fans while firecrack- becoming the highest run-getter ers were set off near the stands. for Sri Lanka in the process with “He has been playing at this 11,646 runs. ground for more that 15 years. “Mahela played very, very He batted extremely well accord- well,” said South Africa’s bowling ing to the situation,” said Silva. coach Allan Donald at the end of AFP day’s play. “When you are two- down and you’ve got (Kumar) Scoreboard Sangakkara bounced out the first ball and walk away, to play the Sri Lanka (I innings): way he (Jayawardene) did, a lot U Tharanga c de Kock b Steyn ...... 11 of credit goes to him. K Silva c de Villiers b Duminy ...... 44 “He played superbly and we’ve K Sangakkara c Tahir b Steyn ...... 0 got to try and remove him tomor- M Jayawardene (batting) ...... 140 row and (for) doing that we’ve got A Mathews c de Kock b Duminy ...... 63 to be very patient. First hour is K Vithanage c de Villiers b Morkel ...... 13 going to be very, very big.” N Dickwella (batting) ...... 12 Jayawardene, who is due to Extras (B-10, LB-10, NB-2) ...... 22 retire next month after a two-Test Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 305 series against Pakistan, shared 99 Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene (left) plays a shot next to South Africa’s wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock during the first day of the second Test match Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-16, 3-115, 4-246, runs with opener Kaushal Silva in Colombo yesterday. 5-285. (44) and another 133 runs with To bat: R Herath, D Perera, A Mendis, S skipper Angelo Mathews (63) for South Africa, was peppered with was revoked on review with TV duck in his sharp four-over open- Philander straight down the Lakmal. the fourth wicket. short balls by the quicks until replays showing the ball had hit ing spell. ground for another four. Bowling: Steyn 15-2-55-2; Philander 16-5- Mathews, who promoted him- his misery was ended by seamer only his pads. Duminy (2-58) accounted for But Tharanga’s flourish was 33-0 (1nb); Morkel 16-2-42-1 (1nb); Tahir self up the batting order, played Morne Morkel (1-42) who had The first session though the third wicket to fall in the short-lived as he gloved to De 24-3-92-0; Duminy 14-1-58-2; Elgar 1-0-5-0. patiently before nicking to wicket- him caught by AB de Villiers for belonged to fast bowler Dale morning, dismissing Silva for a Kock off the fifth ball of Steyn’s South Africa: Hashim Amla (captain), Alviro keeper Quinton de Kock off part- 13. Steyn, the star of South Africa’s well-made 44 off 73 balls. third over. Petersen, Dean Elgar, Faf du Plessis, Quinton time spinner Jean-Paul Duminy Test debutant Niroshan big win in the first Test at Galle. Tharanga started off con- Steyn struck again off the very de Kock, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Vernon shortly into the final session. Dickwella, batting on 12 at Steyn (2-55) sent back opener fidently, driving Steyn to the next ball to dismiss Sangakkara, Philander, Morne Morkel, Dale Steyn, Imran Kithuruwan Vithanage, play- stumps, was given out caught Upul Tharanga and big-hitter cover boundary in the first over much to the disappointment of Tahir. ing his fifth Test and first against off Duminy but the decision Kumar Sangakkara for a golden of the day and smashing Vernon home fans. Afghanistan crush Zimbabwe Cricket to to level one-day series stay out of BULAWAYO: Off-spinner CW Games Sharafuddin Ashraf took three wickets as Afghanistan skittled MUMBAI: Cricket’s absence hosts Zimbabwe for 159 to win from the Commonwealth Games the fourth and final one-day will continue at least until the international by 100 runs yes- 2018 Games in Australia after terday and draw the series 2-2. the International Cricket Ashraf returned figures of Council (ICC) turned down an three for 29 and along with invitation from the governing seamer Dawlat Zadran (two for body of the multi-sport event. 39) was the pick of the bowlers as South Africa won the gold Afghanistan recorded their big- medal when cricket, in its 50-over gest ever 50-over victory by runs. format, made its only appearance Having been sent into bat, at the quadrennial event featur- Elite Force batsman Salman Butt receives his Man-of-the-Match award Afghanistan posted a par-score ing mostly former British colonies at West End Park in Doha on Wenesday. of 259 as they were bowled out during the 1998 Kuala Lumpur in the final over, wicketkeeper Games. Shafiqullah Shafiq top-scoring Prince Tunku Imran of with 56. Malaysia, the chairman of Seamer Donald Tiripano was the Commonwealth Games Elite Force, Al-Feroz the pick of the Zimbabwe bowlers Federation, formally approached as he recorded career-best figures the ICC in 2012 to consider of five for 63. Zimbabwe’s captain Brendan Taylor (left) and Afghanistan’s captain participating in the 2014 Glasgow Mohammad Nabi Eisakhil pose with the series trophy after the match at Youngsters enter final Zimbabwe were in early trouble Games, which got underway in their reply and never recov- the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo yesterday. on Wednesday, and also the next ered from a position of 26 for one. DOHA: Elite Force Choudhary Dilhara chipping in 28. Inam (1) six, despite a rally from debu- ODI and Twenty20 format is game in charge was yesterday’s “There were discussions about CC beat Doha CC by six wick- and Naveed (2) were among the tant wicketkeeper Richmond Elton Chigumbura while assistant defeat. Mangongo led the side as the inclusion of men’s and wom- ets and Al-Feroz Youngsters CC wicket takers for Al Feroz. Mutumbami, who struck 64 from coach Stephen Mangongo moves caretaker last year before the en’s Twenty20 cricket in both the also inflicted a six-wicket defeat Al-Feroz were aggressive from 75 balls to play a lone hand for up to replace Waller, whose last appointment of Waller. AFP 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth on Wings Doha CC during the the start when they came out to the hosts. Games but neither of these came semi-finals of the Ramadan bat. The big-scoring Boota hit 64 Afghanistan lost the opening to fruition,” an ICC spokesperson Tournamnet at West End Park and won the Man-of-the-Match two games of the series, but ral- Scoreboard said in a statement. Stadium on Wednesday. prize. Inam was also in good form, lied in the final two matches to “However, cricket is scheduled In the first semi-final, Doha CC thumping 44 runs to take Al AFGHANISTAN ZIMBABWE end a hugely satisfying tour for to feature in the Commonwealth won the toss and elected to bat. Feroz to 148/4 in 16 overs. Dilhara Javed Ahmadi c Taylor b Tiripano ...... 7 Sikandar Raza b Dawlat Zadran ...... 16 the Asian side. Youth Games in St Lucia in They posted 135/9 in the stipu- (1) and Arvind (2) were the pick Usman Ghani lbw Tiripano ...... 14 Chakabva c Mohd Nabi b Aftab Alam ...... 9 2017.” lated 20 overs. H. Tanveer (44 of the Wings bowlers. Gulbadin Naib c Mutumbami b Masakadza .31 Taylor c Aftab Alam b Mohd Nabi ...... 1 While Twenty20 is considered runs) and Khurram (37) were in Michael Scallon, Head of Sport Zimbabwe coach, Nasir Jamal (run out-Waller) ...... 39 Williams (run out-Dawlat Zadran) ...... 1 a fit for multi-sport events, the fine form with the bat. at West End Park, commented: Samiullah Shenwari c&b Williams ...... 40 Waller lbw Mirwais Ashraf ...... 0 ICC currently holds a 20-over Elite Force bowlers Bilawal “The Ramadan Tournament captaincy changes Mohd Nabi c Chigumbura b Masakadza .....37 Chigumbura c&b Dawlat Zadran ...... 0 CAPE TOWN: Major changes World Cup every two years. and Khalid scalped three wick- is drawing to a close and the Shafiqullah c Taylor b Tiripano ...... 56 T Maruma lbw Sharafuddin Ashraf...... 29 to Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), with The dense 2015-2023 crick- ets apiece. final promises to have local Mirwais Ashraf c Waller b Tiripano ...... 4 R Mutumbami c Shafiqullah b S Ashraf ...... 64 test skipper Brendan Taylor los- eting calendar and the 2018 Elite Force had a competitive cricket fans on the edge of their Dawlat Zadran c Williams b Panyangara .....15 Masakadza c Dawlat Zadran b Sh Ashraf ....15 ing the one-day role and coach Games, scheduled Apr 4-15 at total to chase but Salman Butt seats. Congratulations to Elite Sharafuddin Ashraf (not out) ...... 3 Panyangara (not out) ...... 15 Andy Waller becoming the Gold Coast, clashing with the was in fine form and blasted 62 Force Choudhary and Al Feroz Aftab Alam c Taylor b Tiripano ...... 1 Tiripano b Aftab Alam ...... 1 newly-created director of coach- lucrative Indian Premier League not out to win the Man-of-the- Youngsters for reaching the finals. Extras (LB-2, W-10) ...... 12 Extras (B-1, LB-1, W-4, NB-2) ...... 8 ing, were announced by the ZC are also believed to be major hur- Match award. Iqbal also contrib- I’m sure they will put on a great Total (all out in 49.1 overs) ...... 259 Total (all out in 38 overs) ...... 159 board yesterday. dles for the sport’s inclusion in uted with 27 runs for his side that show. Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-31, 3-62, 4-126, Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-22, 3-29, 4-29, 5-29, The changes came on the day the event. went on to score 137/4 in 19 overs. I’m sure both teams will enjoy 5-146, 6-218, 7-228, 8-248, 9-257, 10-259. 6-29, 7-126, 8-133, 9-153, 10-159. Zimbabwe suffered a crushing Twenty20 cricket will fea- In the second semi-final, Wings the thrill of the occasion and Bowling: T Panyangara 10-1-56-1 (1w); D T Bowling: Mohammad Nabi 5-1-15-1 (1nb); 100-run defeat by Afghanistan ture in this year’s Asian Games Doha CC won the toss and elected savour the chance to play a Final Tiripano 9.1-0-63-5 (2w); E Chigumbura 3-0- Aftab Alam 7-2-30-2 (1w); Mirwais Ashraf 6-1- with the ODI series ending in a in Incheon, South Korea, but to bat hitting. They set a target of in one of the leading cricket ven- 17-0 (2w); S W Masakadza 9-0-39-2 (4w); 21-1; Dawlat Zadran 7-1-39-2 (1nb, 1w); disappointing 2-2 draw for the Asian powerhouses India and 145/6. Zaid Ustad put in another ues in the Middle East. I would Sikandar Raza 5-0-21-0; S C Williams 9-0-41- Sharafuddin Ashraf 9-0-29-3 (2w); Samiullah home side. Pakistan will not participate. great performance with 54 runs like to wish both sides the very 1; M N Waller 4-0-20-0. Shenwari 4-0-23-0. Taylor’s replacement in the REUTERS with Sri Lanka International best of luck”. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Meares shines with fifth gold medal, Farah out of Games Commonwealth Games record times tumble as athletics legend Farah withdraws

GLASGOW: Australian cycling star Anna Meares won a fifth Commonwealth Games gold medal yesterday while Bradley Wiggins had to settle for a fourth silver and Glasgow reeled from the withdrawal of athletics legend Mo Farah. On a sweltering opening day to the Games in Scotland, 30-year- old Meares took 0.3 seconds off her own previous 500m time trial England’s Bradley Wiggins stands on best of 33.758 to cross the line at the podium before receiving his silver the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in medal in men’s 4000m team pursuit 33.435. finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Compatriot Stephanie Morton Games in Glasgow yesterday. RIGHT: claimed silver with a time of Australia’s Anna Meares celebrates 34.079 with England’s Jess after winning the women’s 500m time Varnish winning bronze. trial final race at the Sir Chris Hoy Four-time world champion Velodrome in Glasgow yesterday. Meares has now won a record- equalling five gold medals in track cycling at the Games, joining compatriot Bradley McGee. It was also a third successive victory in the event for Meares, who has now equalled Kathy Watt’s Australia women’s cycling record of seven Commonwealth Games medals. “I decided to start cycling after watching Kathy at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and now the starting point in Glasgow,” ever-cumbersome wetsuits for women’s race. in the first heat of the event by recently laid low by illness and has some 20 years later I beat her said Wiggins. their swim. Canada’s Kirsten Sweetland breaking her own Commonwealth decided to pull out of the Games in most golds. But breaking the World champions New Zealand Alistair Brownlee, the reign- claimed silver, with England’s record in the women’s 400m indi- in order to work on his fitness record was not my biggest target. smashed the Commonwealth ing Olympic champion, made his Vicky Holland taking bronze in vidual medley in a time of 4mins ahead of next month’s European I just wanted to be the best,” said record on their way to winning move halfway through the 10km warm, sunny conditions. 38.27 secs. Championships in Zurich. Meares. the men’s team sprint. run after working together with Action got underway also in the Commonwealth Games record “I really wanted to add Australia also won the men’s England swept the opening his brother in the opening 1.5km pool where top home hope for a times were tumbling all morn- the Commonwealth titles team pursuit gold in a Games triathlon golds with Alistair swim and secondary 40km cycle gold medal, Michael Jamieson was ing at the Tollcross International to my Olympic and World record time of 3min 54.851sec. Brownlee trumping younger around Strathclyde Loch. upstaged by countryman Ross Swimming Centre as Jamaica’s Championships, but the event England, with former Tour de brother Jonathan to win the Alistair built up a 13-sec lead Murdoch in qualifying for the 200 Ali Atkinson went fastest in the is coming a few weeks too soon France winner Bradley Wiggins men’s title after Jodie Stimpson as the bell went for the final lap metres breaststroke final. women’s 50m breaststroke in a for me as my body is telling me in the line-up, took silver. It earlier took gold in the women’s of the 10km run, South African Murdoch smashed the Games record time of 30.49secs. it’s not ready to race yet,” said was Wiggins’ fourth career event. Richard Murray holding his nerve Commonwealth Games record The immediacy of the action Farah. Commonwealth silver medal. The two races took place in to seal bronze at 1:12. by over two seconds in a time of took some of the sting out of Kimberley Renicks won hosts “We’ve had limited prepara- sweltering conditions, air tem- Stimpson, a silver medal win- 2mins 08.78secs with Jamieson Farah’s withdrawal which rocked Scotland’s first gold of the Games tions for this and hopefully will peratures peaking at 28 degrees ner in the World Triathlon Series and Calum Tait completing an all- the Games just as they got when she claimed the women’s look back in two years with gold celsius (82F), with the water a in 2013, sprinted clear with 400 Scottish top three in qualifying. underway. under-48kg judo title with victory medals around our necks (at the balmy 22C, meaning the triath- metres remaining of the final Scotland’s Hannah Miley also The 5,000 and 10,000 metres over India’s Sushila Likmabam. Rio Olympics) thinking this was letes didn’t even have to wear the 10km run to win a thrilling had the home crowd in raptures Olympic champion, 31, was AFP Australia set new women’s India’s Khumukcham, Saikom 4x100m freestyle relay record win gold in weightlifting

GLASGOW: The weightlifting cried,” she said. at the Commonwealth Games Nigeria’s Nkechi Opara took got off to a dramatic start when bronze with 162kg. Indian teen Mirabai Chanu India claimed another gold Saikom was red carded after later Thursday when Sukhen Dey what she thought had been a won the men’s 56kg, teammate final winning lift in the women’s Ganesh Mali claiming bronze 48kg category. behind Malaysia’s Zulhelmi Md The decision handed gold to Pisol. It is a category India have 20-year-old team-mate Sanjita dominated, winning 12 medals in Khumukcham (pictured), the men’s 56kg, the most for a who had earlier equalled the Commonwealth association in a Commonwealth Games record specific weightlifting event. Dey with 77kg in the snatch and put managed a best of 248kg, with the pressure on Chanu Saikom Pisol heaving 245 and Mali 244. with a 96kg final lift in the clean said Hansa Sharma, coach to both For Pisol, the medal was a and jerk. gold medallist Khumukcham and telling moment given the recent Chanu Saikom’s following final Chanu Saikhom. shooting down of Malaysia effort of 98kg left her screaming Khumukcham added: “I’m so Airlines flight MH17 with 298 with joy and leaping into the arms happy to claim India’s first medal people on board over rebel-held of her coach, before seeing that at the Games. I don’t feel like eat- territory in eastern Ukraine in two of the three judges had ruled ing anything.” as-yet unexplained circumstances. out her attempt, deeming her not Chanu Saikhom admitted to “I’m very, very happy. I’m giv- FROM LEFT: Australia’s gold medallists Cate Campbell, Emma McKeon, Bronte Campbell and Melanie Schlanger to be in control of the bar. feeling emotional after her final ing this medal to my family and pose during the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay medals ceremony at the Tollcross International Swimming “We had no problem with the effort was red carded. my nation. My nation is sad and Centre in Glasgow yesterday. judges’ decision. They are doing “I was so disappointed that the I dedicate this medal to them,” he their jobs and we are doing ours,” last lift was no good, that’s why I said. AFP

GLASGOW: Australia set a the elder stateswoman of the Australia dominate a lot so some- new women’s 4x100m freestyle team, Melanie Schlanger. times it can be less exciting, but Scotland’s silver-medallist relay world record of 3min And Schlanger believes more breaking a world record is always Michael Jamieson (left) and 30:98sec as they retained their world records will tumble in the exciting and these girls are so tal- compatriot gold-medallist Commonwealth Games title in near future as swimmers from all ented it is clear Australian swim- Ross Murdoch pose with Glasgow yesterday. over the world get closer to the ming is in safe hands.” their medals for the men’s Having already broken the times set before a ban on high- It was a particularly spe- Commonwealth Games record in tech swim suits in 2009. cial evening for another of the 200m breaststroke in Glasgow the heats, the addition of 100m “It is pretty cool. I am 27 now team Emma McKeon as she also yesterday. Murdoch broke the freestyle world champion Cate and coming towards the end of my claimed gold in the 200m freestyle Commonwealth Games record Campbell to the final team proved career so I never thought I would and qualified for the 100m but- for the second time in a day the difference as they shaved break another world record. terfly final. to deny hot favourite Michael more than seven tenths of a sec- “Australia used to break them “It has been overwhelming. Jamieson as Scotland claimed ond off the previous record held all the time and I am sure we I wasn’t expecting all of this gold and silver in the men’s by the Netherlands. will see more in the next couple tonight. I definitely enjoyed it all, 200m breaststroke. He finished England took the silver medal of years as we get closer to the but after my first medal I had to nearly a second ahead of his with Canada coming third for super suit times. refocus for my next race and then team-mate in a time of 2min bronze. “The suits put those targets a for the relay. 07:30sec, whilst Andrew Willis “It wasn’t even a topic that we little bit away from everyone, but “The most special is definitely took the bronze for England. had discussed, but I think we all to have an Aussie record now is the relay. To see the team up in had an inkling in the back of our pretty exciting. the stands cheering us on and my heads that it was possible,” said “At the Commonwealth Games, family here was amazing.” AFP FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK TIME

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MUSCAT 33/29 Clear 33/28 Clear MAKKAH 41/30 Mostly cloudy 40/31 Partly cloudy KUWAIT 47/32 Clear 48/31 Clear BAHRAIN 39/33 Clear 38/33 Partly cloudy Film charts Detroit’s ‘slow SANAA 27/18 Thunderstorm 28/17 Chance of storm RIYADH 42/30 Partly cloudy 43/31 Chance of storm DUBAI 41/29 Clear 43/33 Partly cloudy BAGHDAD 44/30 Clear 44/27 Clear THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW motion catastrophe’ HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER PARIS: When film director “The reality of the way it played ATHENS 31/25 Clear 32/26 Partly cloudy Steve Faigenbaum grew up in out was that it was the escape Detroit, the city pulsated to route for all the white folks who WASHINGTON 29/22 Overcast 31/24 Partly cloudy the sound of Motown and car could get out.” SYDNEY 18/09 Chance of rain 18/07 Clear manufacturing. Land was cheap and ten- LONDON 27/16 Chance of rain 28/17 Partly cloudy Today, the once mighty city, sion between whites and blacks PARIS 26/18 Clear 26/18 Chance of rain which declared bankruptcy in accelerated the exodus of whites ISTANBUL 27/23 Partly cloudy 29/22 Partly cloudy 2013, is a nightmarish vision of towards newly built suburbs. urban decay that draws young Meanwhile, the introduction of MANILA 30/24 Chance of storm 29/25 Chance of storm people from all over the world to automated production in car fac- DHAKA 32/27 Chance of storm 31/27 Chance of storm buy a house for $1,000. tories sowed the seeds of future DELHI 34/26 Haze 35/26 Chance of storm With the highest violent crime unemployment. ISLAMABAD 32/25 Chance of storm 31/25 Chance of storm rate of any large US city, Detroit Faigenbaum notes that has lost 63 percent of its popula- Detroit’s urban decay was already tion since 1950. well advanced in the 1980s when At least 78,000 buildings stand “devil’s night” -- the night before Nadaam Festival abandoned and there is enough Halloween -- would regularly once-inhabited empty land to fit see up to 800 empty properties a city the size of Paris. A file photo taken on June 15, 2005 shows abandoned homes in what was burned down. “It’s just hard to imagine once a thriving middle class area in Detroit. While making the film, the scale of destruction,” said Faigenbaum found himself back Faigenbaum, whose film “City whatever you were you could film aims to show “how the at his grandparents’ house, now of Dreams” about what he calls make something of yourself and choices people make play out derelict and daubed with the let- Detroit’s “slow motion catastro- do something,” he told AFP in an over 100 years”. In particular, he ters R.I.P., indicating that some- phe” has just been released in interview in Paris. highlights the “Wild West capi- one had been murdered there. France. “Even as a student you could talism” of Ford Motor Company In the basement, he found his “Almost anywhere you go there get a summer job and make a lot owner Henry Ford, whose Model long-dead grandfather’s old work are these houses that are just fall- of money. There were jobs. You T -- the first affordable car for bench. Later he watched as the ing apart. Big houses, just totally didn’t need much of an education, the masses -- revolutionised the bulldozers moved in and reduced left, just abandoned,” he said. you just needed to have the will to automobile industry. the house to rubble. The grandson of Jewish immi- work,” he said. In 1914, Henry Ford announced Faigenbaum warns that grants from eastern Europe, The music -- blues and Motown he would pay workers $5 per day, Detroit’s demise is a reminder Faigenbaum, 64, who now lives in -- for which Detroit is now famous double the going rate, and peo- that even apparently thriving cit- Paris, moved away from the city was also a constant presence. ple flooded into the city in search ies are not “immortal”. in the late 1960s. “There was all this amazing of work. By 1950 the population Today, despite all its woes, Years later, however, following music. On every street corner... stood at two million and the city young people still come to the his father’s death he found himself and it kind of expressed every- was the centre of the US automo- city in search of a cheap property. back in Detroit. thing that needed to be expressed. tive industry. “It’s hard to rain on anyone’s Stunned by the apocalyptic “Now it seems quite remark- But just as the automobile sense of optimism but there’s The annual Mongolian Nadaam Festival, featuring various Mongolian landscape, he set out to try and able, but it was just what was helped make Detroit, it also still such violence. All these kids ethnic groups, nomads and wrestlers in traditional garb, opens in make sense of it all. happening.” helped to destroy it. come here with the dream... until Bairin Right Banner of Chifeng city, a small city in the northern Chinese “Growing up there, there Mixing his own family history “At the same time as the car their friends get carjacked or province of Inner Mongolia, yesterday. was always this enormous sense with up-to-date reportage and comes along, they’re building someone is held up at gunpoint,” of possibility, that whoever or archive footage, Faigenbaum’s more roads,” Faigenbaum said. Faigenbaum said. AFP Crisis engulfs Met, world’s richest opera company

NEW YORK: Proposed pay prepare for union workers to survival of the Met artistically cuts, declining ticket sales, dire be locked out from August 1. and financially,” clarinetist Jessica reviews and threatened strike While spending and fundraising Phillips Rieske said. action, the Metropolitan Opera have increased, ticket sales have Gelb proposes a 16-percent pay in New York is embroiled in declined steadily for the last four cut from August 1 to save $30 perhaps its ugliest crisis in 30 seasons and the Met says it must million. years. slash overheads now to avoid Musicians are outraged. They As the wealthiest opera com- bankruptcy in the future. say they already work 30 percent pany on the planet and the biggest New York City Opera, formerly more than any other orchestra in classical music organization in the the Big Apple’s second company, the United States in exchange for United States, the Met dwarfs went under last October and the the lowest quality of life because counterparts in Europe with a Met says the audience for opera New York is so expensive. budget of nearly $327m. is in decline and that it must get They are also question the Yet staff are locked in a bit- costs under control. urgency of the financial crisis, ter dispute with the company’s “The Metropolitan Opera is saying that the company ran a managing director of eight years, facing one of the biggest financial deficit of only $2.8m last year. Peter Gelb, over proposed pay challenges in its 131 year history,” Rather than cutting pay, they cuts of 16 percent that threaten to a spokesman told AFP. want Gelb to save $20m by com- delay the start of the new season. “Donors are not willing or able missioning one or two fewer pro- If no resolution is found by to continue to finance the grow- ductions, staging fewer overtime July 31 in the dispute over pay -- ing gap between flat revenues and operas and slashing wasteful which represents $200m of the growing expenditure.” rehearsal time. Met’s budget -- the company has But musicians’ unions say poor Gelb, a nephew of violinist threatened to order the first work ticket sales reflect bad Gelb pro- Jascha Heifetz who came to the stoppage since 1980. ductions, not declining interest in Met from Sony where his biggest Gelb turned up the pressure an elitist art form, and that slash- hit was the soundtrack for movie on Wednesday, telling The Wall ing salaries is unfair. “Titanic,” has been a polarizing A file picture taken on September 21, 2009 shows an outdoor screening of Puccini’s classic opera Tosca at the Street Journal that staff should “We’re really fighting for the manager. AFP Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center in New York.