Daily Newspaper - 2015 - 11 - 03 - 000001

SPORT | Page 1
AMERICA | Page 13
INDEX
QATAR
2 8, 28
9
REGION
ARAB WORLD
10, 11
INTERNATIONAL 12 25
COMMENT
26, 27
1 7, 14 16
BUSINESS
CLASSIFIED
8 13
SPORTS
1 12
DOW JONES
QE
NYMEX
17,752.74
11,546.94
46.14
+89.20
+0.50%
-39.05
-0.34%
-0.45
-0.97%
Latest Figures
Turkish election
results welcomed
Qatar yesterday welcomed
the results of the Turkish
parliamentary elections that took
place on Sunday. In a statement,
the Foreign Ministry described
the elections as an important
step in the march of democracy,
unity and stability in the brotherly
Republic of Turkey, stressing that
the results are a true reflection of
the Turkish peoples willingness
to complete the success and
prosperity process. The statement
expressed Qatars hope that the
elections would contribute to the
achievement of further progress,
prosperity and growth for Turkey
and its people, stressing the close
brotherly relations between the
two countries and peoples. Page 18
Prime Minister and Minister of Interior HE Sheikh Abdulla bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, Minister of State for Defence HE
Major General Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah, Minister of Transport HE Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti and Minister of Municipalities
and Urban Planning HE Sheikh Abdurahman bin Khalifa bin Abdulazeez al-Thani and HE Major General Ghanem bin
Shaheen al-Ghanem and Brigadier Abdullah bin Mohamed al-Suweidi at the opening of the fifth Civil Defence Exhibition and
Conference yesterday: PICTURE: Shaji Kayamkulam
Civil Defence Exhibition

opens at newly-built DECC
in
QATAR | Statement
In brief
TUESDAY
By Ramesh Mathew
Staff Reporter
HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin

Hamad al-Thani yesterday sent a
cable of congratulations to Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on
the occasion of the success of the
parliamentary elections process,
expressing his hope for further
prosperity and progress for Turkey
and its people.
REGION | Weather
Cyclone ravages
Yemeni island
A rare tropical cyclone killed
three people and injured scores
on the exotic Yemeni island of
Socotra yesterday and then
headed towards a gas terminal
and an Al Qaeda-controlled town
on the mainland. The World
Meteorological Organisation
initially rated the storm, named
Chapala, as potentially very
dangerous, but later yesterday
downgraded it to very severe.
he Civil Defence has been successful in raising safety awareness among Qatars residents
since the rst exhibition it held on the
topics of safety and security in 2007,
the organising committee chairman of
the fth Civil Defence Exhibition and
Conference, Brigadier Abdullah bin
Mohamed al-Suweidi, said yesterday.
At the opening of the exhibition and
conference at the newly-built Doha
Exhibition and Convention Centre
(DECC), Brigadier al-Suweidi said the
demand for adopting new methods
and solutions that could effectively
answer the ever-growing concerns of
the public had been steadily growing
across the region, particularly in Qatar.
Earlier, Prime Minister and Minister of Interior HE Sheikh Abdulla bin
Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani inaugurated the three-day exhibition and
conference, the rst-ever event at the
sprawling venue.
Situations have been changing

over the years, so too is the demand
for adopting new methodologies, said
Brigadier al-Suweidi while delivering
the keynote address.
The exhibition, he said, was not only
restricted to promoting and marketing safety and security equipment but
also contributed to showcasing and
raising awareness among residents
about the new methods and strategies
adopted for safety and security at different levels across the world.
The country stood to gain considerably from such events as it would help
the security forces implement plans
and projects in improve its services to
safeguarding its people, said Brigadier
al-Suweidi.
There is a growing awareness about
sustainable development and reduction and elimination of disasters
among the people across the world
and this was one of the reasons why
the exhibition and conference had
adopted it as the main theme of the
three-day event, he said.
Brigadier al-Suweidi said Qatar
was keen to adopt new methods and
Page 9
ASIA | Dispute
Push for settlement of

comfort women issue
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe said Japan and South
Korea had agreed to speed up
negotiations to settle the issue of
comfort women, those who were
forced into prostitution at Japanese
wartime brothels. Page 15
Qatari children set to greet the guests on their arrival at the opening of the
exhibition yesterday.
strategies for achieving sustainable

development in line with the requirements of the Qatar National Vision
2030, which emphasises the need to
enhance the personal competence of
its citizens, based on the four pillars of
development, namely human, social,
economical and environmental.
While deliberating on the issue of
sustainable development, Brigadier
Suweidi said the increasing temperatures across the world were causing
considerable heartburn and thus raising challenges on a host of areas.
There is greater need of nding
answers at local, regional and global
levels to such issues as rising temperatures and growing sea surfaces. Also,
there is greater necessity of reducing
and eliminating natural calamities and
disasters, he said.
While reaffirming the commitment
of the General Department of the Civil
Defence in upgrading safety and security equipment and also the skills of its
personnel, he said the department had
undertaken studies at different levels
and been carrying out an array of construction activities and applying creative methods to attain international
standards in its practices.
Minister of State for Defence and
HE Major General Hamad bin Ali alAttiyah, Minister of Transport HE
Jassem Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti and
Minister of Municipality and Urban
Development HE Sheikh Abdurahman
bin Khalifa bin Abdulazeez al-Thani,
HE the Chief of General Staff of the
Armed Forces Major General Ghanem
bin Shaheen al-Ghanem and prominent enterpreneur Sheikh Faisal bin
Qassim al-Thani were among others
present at the opening. Page 8
www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals
Al-Attiyah
sees GCC
rethink on
subsidies
In its inaugural research report,
the Abdullah Bin Hamad Al
Attiyah Foundation for Energy
and Sustainable Development
says the GCC countries should
tackle soaring domestic energy
consumption trends or risk losing
valuable export revenues
By Pratap John
Chief Business Reporter
he GCC governments have to reduce subsidies and prepare people to accept that change, said
HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah,
chairman of the Abdullah Bin Hamad
Al Attiyah Foundation for Energy and
Sustainable Development.
The Gulf countries have to rethink
the generous subsidies they have
they cannot afford them anymore and
will have to look at alternatives, alAttiyah said during the launch of his
foundation in Doha on Sunday night.
The people will protest because
they are used to cheap or free electricity
and power. I believe this will eventually
change culturally because people will
realise that they cannot keep depending forever on a depleting product.
Young, educated people will be instrumental to that change, al-Attiyah said.
In its inaugural research report that
HE al-Attiyah: says the Gulf countries

cannot afford the generous subsidies
anymore.
Michelle Obama in Doha to attend education conference

AFP
Doha
ichelle Obama arrived in Doha yesterday on the opening stage of her rst solo
Middle East tour, where she
is expected to call for addressing cultural beliefs
obstructing girls education.
The US rst lady is set to
speak at the World Innovation
Summit for Education (WISE)
tomorrow, as part of her wellpublicised efforts to promote
girls education globally.
The summit is held under the theme Investing for
Impact: Quality Education
for Sustainable and Inclusive
Growth.
Michelle Obama will speak
to an audience of education
leaders from the region at the
conference, which will also be
addressed by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science
and Community Develop-
ment (QF) chairperson HH

Sheikha Moza bint Nasser.
We cannot address our
girls education crisis until we
address the broader cultural
beliefs and practices that can
help cause and perpetuate
this crisis, Michelle Obama
wrote in an essay appearing
on the Atlantic magazines
website on the eve of her trip.
That is precisely the message I intend to deliver this
week when I travel to the
Middle East, she wrote.
Ill be urging countries
around the world to both
make new investments in
girls education and challenge
laws and practices that silence, demean, and brutalise
women...
In an e-mail she wrote
ahead of her trip, Michelle
Obama said that 62mn girls
across the globe are not going
to school at all, urging support for the Let Girls Learn
initiative which she launched
with
President
Barack
Obama earlier this year.

Imagine being told, at
the age of 12 or 13, Thats
it, youre done with school.
Youve gotten all the education youre ever going to get,
she wrote.
Pretty awful, right? And I
dont think any young person
should ever have to give up
their dreams like this. I think
every child on this planet boys and girls - should be
able to get an education, she
added.
During her visit to Qatar,
she will also visit American
military service personnel at
the Al Udeid air base.
At the base she will be accompanied by US late-night
television host Conan O Brien.
The week-long trip will
also see the rst lady visit
Jordan.
There, she is expected to
visit a girls school in the Jordanian capital, Amman, built
with US aid funds.
Vol. XXXVI No. 9895
November 3, 2015
Moharram 20, 1437 AH
QATAR | Greetings
Emir sends cable

of congratulations
he R
is
bl TA 978
A 1
Q since
GULF TIMES
pu
Le Clos takes three gold

at FINA World Cup Doha
Bush
reboots
floundering
presidential
campaign
was released at the function, the Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development said the GCC countries should
tackle soaring domestic energy consumption trends or risk losing valuable
export revenues that accounts for up to
90% of government income.
Reversing the trend in domestic
energy consumption in the GCC: Consequences of success and failure? is
the title of the report by the Al Attiyah
Foundation, the rst think tank of its
kind in the Middle East, and it highlights that energy is sold more cheaply
in the Gulf than almost anywhere else
in the world.
Prices that appeared municent in
the 1970s have remained constant or
even been reduced, in a few cases despite the eroding effects of income and
ination. Energy prices have thus fallen dramatically in real terms, growing
so cheap relative to income that consumption decisions in the Gulf have
become an afterthought.
In an interview, al-Attiyah said: We
will advise governments and companies on how to build their own projects,
how to cut the fat in their expenses,
how to avoid market shocks, how to be
prepared, how to make the right calculations and how to plan ahead both in
the short term and the long term.
We want people to knock on our door
with questions which we will aim to answer based on our vast experience. The
foundation will have leading experts
from around the world, thinking clearly
without the burdens and pressures of
bureaucracy, budgets or politics.
I strongly believe in empowering
our citizens. Educating our citizens is
vital for the future of the Gulf region,
which faces many challenges, including that of heavy energy consumption.
The region has witnessed major developments and now faces big power
shortages. It needs more gas and more
oil. The local market has huge consumption, which mostly comes at
the expense of exporting crude oil.
Business Page 16
Russian airline
blames crash on
mid-air impact
DPA
Moscow
US first lady Michelle Obama is being welcomed upon her arrival at Hamad International Airport in Doha
yesterday.
he Russian airline whose plane

crashed in Egypt on Saturday,
killing all 224 aboard, said yesterday that the disaster was most likely
caused by a mid-air impact.
The only plausible reason can be a
mechanical impact on the plane, the
deputy general director of Kogalymavia, a small airline that operates ights
under the name Metrojet, told a press
conference.
There is no combination of system failures that could cause the plane
to be destroyed in the air, Alexander
Smirnov said, according to the Interfax
news agency.
Another deputy general director, Viktor Yung, said the plane
was in excellent technical condition and the pilot made no
distress call before the crash.
Page 11
Gulf Times
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
QATAR
In brief
Deputy PM meets ambassadors
Emir to inaugurate
Advisory Council
session today
Hamad al-Thani will inaugurate
today the 44th ordinary session
of the Advisory Council.
HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud held separate meetings with the ambassadors of China, Germany and Azerbaijan - Li Chen,
Hans-Udo Muzel and Tawfiq Abdullah-Yiev, respectively, in Doha yesterday. During the meetings, they discussed bilateral relations and ways of enhancing them. They also reviewed issues of common concern.
Court commutes
death sentence
in murder case
he Court of Appeal has

commuted the death
sentence awarded to two
murder convicts as the victims
family has accepted the blood
money, local Arabic daily has reported.
The convicts have been given
jail terms of ve and two years,
respectively, the report states.
The duo, along with some unidentied teenagers, had hatched
a plan to steal a vehicle from a
company storehouse in the Ain
Khalid area. Accordingly, they
dropped a ball in the place and
sought the guards permission to
let them retrieve the ball.
Once inside, one of them attacked the guard, who started to
scream. They then gagged him
and beat him up. The guard tried
to put up a resistance but eventually succumbed to the injuries.
The accused stole the car and
ed the spot. They also put the
number plate of an abandoned
car on it.
Following their conviction,
the duo was sentenced to death
by a court. Later, when the victims kin accepted the blood
money and reported to the court
that each had got the due share,
the sentence was commuted to
a prison term for both convicts.
Monkey business
lands man in soup
m a n
w a s
handed over to the
security authorities after
the Ministry
of Environment found
him illegally
keeping a chimpanzee at his
house in the Al Aziziyah area of
Doha with the intention of selling it.
He was referred to the security
department concerned and the
animal was sent to the zoo until
the case was resolved.
Warning of strong
winds, high seas
trong winds and high seas

are expected in offshore
areas today, the Met office
has said.
The wind speed in these areas
is likely to go up to 22kt, according to the forecast.
It will be slightly dusty at
times in different parts of the
country and partly cloudy conditions are also expected, along
with a chance of rain in some
places by the afternoon.
Partly cloudy and slightly
dusty conditions are likely in
offshore areas, which may also
see some scattered rain, the
weather office has said.
The minimum and maximum
temperatures in the country are
expected to be 23C and 32C, respectively, with the forecast for
Doha being 26C and 30C.
Volkswagen Jetta
vehicles recalled
he Ministry of Economy
and Commerce (MEC)
has announced a free recall campaign for Volkswagen
Jetta vehicles made in the 201015 period due to a possibility of
the rear trailing arm getting deformed during crashes.
The campaign is being jointly
conducted with Q-Auto, the authorised distributor of Volkswagen vehicles in Qatar.
Workshop discusses steps

to tackle rain emergencies
T
he Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has conducted a workshop on the

development and enhancement
of integrated work mechanisms
and procedures with the municipalities for the rain emergencies preparedness plan.
In co-ordination with the
Ministry of Municipality and
Urban Planning (MMUP), the
workshop gathered participants
from the Municipalities Service
Managers and representatives of
the Mechanical Equipment and
Quality departments. Engineer
Khalid Ahmed al-Obaidly, head
of Treatment Section in Ashghal, led the workshop.
Ashghals presentation included a detailed explanation of
the work mechanisms and procedures for rain emergencies,
which resulted in an agreement
on a set of organised procedures
to be followed, particularly the
enhancement of co-ordination
and co-operation between Ashghal and other concerned parties
like the MMUP, National Control Centre, and Qatar Meteorology Department.
To enhance co-ordination and
co-operation, 220 employees
from Ashghal and the MMUP
Participants listen to a presentation during the workshop.

will be notied via Arabic and
English text messages to warn
them of a rainfall potential and
of changes in alarm levels.
The procedures are distributed among all concerned parties and involve the adoption
of common alarm levels and a
standardised escalating or lowering down mechanism for Ashghal and the MMUP.
In addition, the presentation
included a detailed theoretical
exercise of a scenario of increasing the alarm levels, the procedures followed in each stage, and
the role of each of the concerned

parties.
Ashghals preparedness plan
for the rainy season, which is
implemented by the Asset Affairs, included developing the
operations management centre
and training work team to deal
with emergencies, equipping an

operations centre to manage and
contain emergencies along with
conducting trainings to respond
to emergencies, increasing the
capacities of the customer service centres and responding to
emergencies 24 hours a day.
The plan also includes preparing comprehensive equipment of pumps and electric
generators and ensuring their
quality and readiness, and distributing backup electric generators on the main pumping
stations during the rainy season for early warning regarding potential emergencies, as
these stations are connected
to the Central Control Room
(SCADA).
The plan covers areas with
existing infrastructure and
other as areas with infrastructure yet to be developed. For
developed areas, the plan includes carrying out maintenance works and ensuring the
effectiveness of the rainwater
drainage system. For areas that
lack infrastructure, the necessary procedures are taken in
coordination with the MMUP
to avoid the accumulation of
rainwater in those areas.
Ooredoo Group picks up 29 Stevies

O
oredoo has been honoured with 29 awards at

the 2015 International
Business Awards (IBAs), also
known as the Stevies.
This comes as the company
continues to integrate business
innovation and the development
of market-leading product offerings with a strong community-focused approach, according
to a statement.
The Group received three Gold
Stevie Awards, including Most
Innovative Company of the Year
(Middle East and Africa), recognising Ooredoos leadership
in communications and digital
services in emerging markets
with more than 114mn customers worldwide. The companys
innovations include the latest network developments and
newest applications and services
that are transforming peoples
lives across the Middle East,
North Africa and Southeast
Asia, the statement notes.
Two additional Gold awards
recognised the success of Ooredoos Mozaic Go app, an entertainment app that provides a
world of entertainment on the
go, live TV and videos on demand
for customers in Qatar, as well as
the revamp of Indosats website,
Ooredoos company in Indonesia.
Dr Nasser Marah, Group CEO
of Ooredoo, said: The Stevie award
wins demonstrate the success and
Officials with some of the awards won by Ooredoo at the ceremony in Toronto, Canada.
impact of Ooredoos wide-ranging
initiatives, developed and sustained throughout the year.
Ranked number one, Ooredoo
also received the Grand Stevie
Award, which is determined by
a points system based on the
total numbers of awards won. It
is the second year in a row that
Ooredoo is included in the top
10 among all other organisations
honoured in the 2015 IBAs.
An additional eight Silver
Stevie Awards and 17 Bronze
Stevie Awards further recognised Ooredoos outreach work

and the successful impact of
many of these initiatives, including two Silver Stevies for
CSR Programme of the Year in
two regions, namely the Asiacell Programme for Refugees and
Displaced People (Middle East &
Africa) and Myanmar Connect
Women (Asia, Australia and New
Zealand), the statement adds.
Other Silver Stevies include
Company of the Year Tele-
coms, Brand Experience of Year

Marketing Campaign, Consumer for the Messi campaign,
Best New Product of Service of
the Year for IdeaBox, Best Interface Design (Website) for
Ooredoo Fans Do Wonders and
Motivational Video for both the
Paris Saint-Germain Academy
and the Simply Do Wonders
The Winners Meet Messi videos.
Ooredoo also received 17
Bronze Stevie Awards, including
Executive of the Year going to
Dr Marah and Chairman of the

Year recognising the work of his
Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohamed
bin Saud al-Thani.
Other Bronze Stevies include
Corporate Social Responsibility Programme of the Year for
the Ooredoo Cancer Centre in
Doha, Best Non-Prot/Charity Fund Raising Event for the
Mobile Health Clinics launch in
Jogya, Communications or PR
Campaign of the Year Media
Relations for Ooredoo Algerias
Media Star Contest, Communications or PR Campaign of the
Year Social Media Focused for
the Messi Social Media Global
Campaign, Brand Experience of
the Year Consumer for Oman
Rebranding, Best New Product
or Service of the Year Consumer Services for Indosat Carrier
Billing for the Google Play Store,
Best New Product or Service of
the Year Telecoms Service for
Ooredoo Algerias Oobarmijoo,
Best Marketing or Sales Brochure online and electronic for
Ooredoos Digital Rebrand, Best
Overall Web Design for Simply Do Wonders, Game App for
JagoCatur, Integrated Mobile
Experience App for iCity, Best
Service Sales video for Indosat
Carrier Billing for the Google
Play Store, Best Telecoms Website for Ooredoo Community
and Best new Product or Service
of the Year for MayMay.
Emir holds phone

talks with Indian
prime minister
Hamad al-Thani held a telephone
conversation yesterday with
Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
During the telephone call, they
discussed relations between
Qatar and India and means to
enhance and develop them, and
reviewed a number of issues of
common concern.
Emir greets
Nepals president
Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy
Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad
al-Thani and HE the Prime
Minister and Minister of Interior
Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin
Khalifa al-Thani have sent cables
of congratulations to President
Bidhya Devi Bhandari on her
swearing-in as the new president
of Nepal.
Minister meets
UN official
HE the Minister of Environment
Ahmed bin Amer al-Humaidi
met the UN Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Climate Change Janos
Pasztor, and his accompanying
delegation in Doha yesterday.
They discussed issues related
to climate change and the latest
developments in this regard.
Qatar-Algeria
ties reviewed
Algerian Finance Minister
Abderrahmane Benkhelfa met
Qatars ambassador Ibrahim bin
Abdulaziz al-Sahlawi in Algiers
yesterday.
They discussed the existing
relations between Qatar and
Algeria and means to develop
them, in addition to issues of
common concern.
Meanwhile, Algerian Minister of
Culture Izzzedin Mayhoubi also
met Qatars ambassador.
They discussed bilateral relations
and means to develop them,
especially in the field of culture.
UAE minister meets

Qatari ambassador
UAE Minister of Labour Saqr
bin Ghobash Saeed Ghobash
met Qatars ambassador Hadi
bin Nasser al-Hajri in Abu Dhabi
yesterday.
They stressed the deep-rooted
relations between the two
countries under the leaderships
of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim
bin Hamad al-Thani and UAE
President Sheikh Khalifa bin
Zayed al-Nahyan.
They reviewed the development
of legislations regulating the
labour markets in the UAE
and Qatar, as well as practices
and initiatives that ensure the
interests of employers, protect
labour rights, and promote a
balanced work relationship.
Bangladesh leader
meets Qatari envoy
President of Bangladesh
Mohamed Abdul Hamid met
Qatars outgoing ambassador
Abdulaziz Mohamed al-Mana.
They discussed bilateral relations
and means to boost them.
Porsche Macan GTS available for order in Qatar

T
he all-new GTS version of

Porsches compact SUV
Macan is available for order, Porsche Centre Doha of Al
Boraq Automobiles announced
yesterday.
Like all Porsche models that
bear the three letter insignia, the
Macan GTS is inspired by motor
racing.
A reengineered chassis, 20hp
more than the Macan S and reinforced brakes are some of the
features on offer in the latest
addition to the Stuttgart-based

manufacturers GTS line-up.
With an output of 360hp and
500nm of torque, the Macan
GTS places in-between the Macan S and the Macan Turbo.
The technical basis for this
comprises of a three-litre V6
bi-turbo engine from the Macan
S, accompanied by the Porsche
Doppelkupplung and Porsche
Traction Management with exible power distribution between
front and rear axles. Complet-
The Porsche Macan GTS

ing the zero to 100 km/h sprint
in 5.0 seconds with the optional
Sport Chrono package, the Ma-
can GTS has a top speed of 256

km/h.
The GTS version of Porsches
compact SUV combines a high
level of driving dynamics with
outstanding everyday utility.
A sportier tuning of the PASM
chassis lowered by 15mm, along
with 20-inch RS Spyder design
wheels with matt black paint
nish and mixed tyres (front:
265/45 and rear: 295/40), are
some of the new sporty features.
Also, in keeping with iconic
Porsche styling are the standard

GTS sport seats with Alcantara
centre panels, additional Alcantara trim in the interior as
well as a distinctive sounding
sports exhaust system.
The new Porsche Communication Management celebrates
its SUV debut in the Macan GTS.
The Macan GTS can be recognised at rst glance thanks to a
range of exterior accents nished
in black, this includes high gloss
in the upper and matt nish in
the lower areas of the car, as well

as GTS-specic colouring, that
comes as standard.
For the rst time, the Macan
GTS is also available with the option of LED headlights including
Porsche Dynamic Light System
Plus which guarantees optimum
illumination of the road under all
conditions.
The deliveries of the Macan
GTS will commence in March,
2016. The basic retail price in
Qatar is QR290,800.
Gulf Times
QATAR
FM meets UN special envoy to Yemen
HE the Foreign Minister Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah receiving the UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould
Cheikh Ahmed in Doha yesterday. They exchanged views on the measures taken by the UN envoy for reaching a
political solution to the Yemeni crisis on the basis of the related UN Security Council resolutions, Yemeni national
dialogue and the Gulf Initiative.
Jordanian minister praises

bilateral ties with Qatar
QNA
Amman
ordanian Minister of Political and Parliamentary

Affairs Dr Khaled al-Kalaldeh has praised the deeprooted relations between
his country and the State of
Qatar, saying they are based
on brotherhood and mutual
respect.
Speaking to Qatar News

Agency (QNA), al-Kaladeh
said that the Jordanian-Qatari relations are based on
brotherhood and historical
mutual respect, stressing
that the objective is to enhance the co-operation to
more advanced levels.
Al-Kaladeh lauded Qatars support for energy,
health, transport, construction and railway projects in
Jordan, while expressing his

appreciation for the assistance and contribution provided by the Gulf states in
the promotion of his countrys economy.
The Jordanian minister
added that the Gulf states
always stood by Jordan, referring in this regard to the
donation worth $5bn dinars
to support development
projects in the kingdom.
On the Syrian issue, alKalaldeh expressed his

hope that the Russian intervention in Syria would
not cause new waves of
displacement of Syrian refugees to Jordan.
He noted that his country
provides refuge to 1.4mn
Syrians, adding that Jordan
has the ability to accommodate 250,000 new refugees.
Gulf Times
QATAR
Qatar to participate in
Paris Unesco meeting
QNA
Doha
he State of Qatar is participating in the 38th Session

of the General Conference
of the United Nations Educational, Scientic and Cultural
Organisation (Unesco), which is
set to begin at the organisations
headquarters in Paris today.
HE the Minister of Education
and Higher Education, and Secretary General of the Supreme
Education Council Dr Mohamed
Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi
will head Qatars delegation to
the conference.
The Minister of Education
will highlight the great atten-
tion given by the State of Qatar

to education as a fundamental
pillar of development, as well as
its support for education on an
international scale.
The conference consists
of the representatives of the
member-states of the organisation. It meets every two
years, and is attended by member-states and associate members, together with observers
for non-member-states, intergovernmental
organisations
and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The conference determines
the policies and the main lines
of work of the organisation. Its
duty is to set the programmes
and the budget of Unesco.
Minister visits Joaan bin Jassim College

HE the Minister of Development Planning and Statistics Dr Saleh
Mohamed Salem al-Nabit visited Joaan bin Jassim Joint Command and
Joint Staff College yesterday to give a lecture on the role of the Ministry
in the development of the State of Qatar.
The lecture focused specifically on the ministrys role in preparing
Qatar National Development Strategy 2011-2016 and following up its
implementation.
The Minister also gave a presentation on the achievements of Qatar
based on reports of international agencies.
Qatar playing key role in building

bridges between cultures: al-Kuwari
QNA
Muscat
he 9th Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers

began here yesterday with
Qatari participation.
Activities of the three-day
conference, held under the
theme Towards Intermediary
Developmental Culture for the
Advancement of Islamic Societies, include a round-table conference at the ministerial level
aimed to promote cultural mediation in the Muslim world.
Addressing the conference,
HE the Minister of Culture, Arts
and Heritage Dr Hamad bin Abdul Aziz al-Kuwari said that Qatar rmly believes in the need for
dialogue empowerment among
civilizations and cultures, adding that special efforts have
been made in this direction and
a number of events and conferences have been organised to activate this dialogue.
The Minister explained that
HE the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Dr Hamad bin Abdul Aziz al-Kuwari with other delegates to the 9th Islamic Conference of
Culture Ministers in Muscat ysterday.
Islamic culture is an open culture
that respects others and focuses
on strengthening mutual understanding and co-operation between civilizations and people.
Dr al-Kuwari called for enhancing the principle of dialogue
among civilizations on the basis
of mutual understanding between human beings.
The Minister discussed how

the State of Qatar is playing a
role in advancing dialogue between different cultures, whether through establishing centres
or holding conferences on the
subject. He added that Qatars
contribution is stemming from a
belief that cultural dialogue promotes peace and conserves the
unique values of each culture.

Dr al-Kuwari said that the Islamic Culture promotes peace
and respect. As a result, others
should not look to build walls
to separate them from people in
the Islamic world. The Minister
said that all people are required
to stand up to hateful ideas because they dont originate in Is-
lamic culture, pointing out that

the new age requires a new, more
modern cultural rhetoric.
The Minister told the participants of the conference that Qatar
has nominated him as DirectorGeneral of Unesco. He expressed
his hope that participants in the
conference would endorse the
nomination, as did GCC members.
Interior Ministrys telecommunication

department wins ISO certication
QNA
Doha
he Telecommunications
Department
of
Qatars Ministry of Interior has won ISO
9001:2008 certication.
German company TUV
Hessen in collaboration
with Arabian Quality Services Company presented the
certicate at an event held

in Doha.
Director of International
Co-operation Department
Major General Abdul Aziz
al-Ansari; Telecommunications Department Director Brigadier Ali Salem alHenzab; Strategic Planning
Department Director Brigadier Abdul Rahman Majid
al-Sulaiti, and Commercial
Attache at the German em-
bassy in Doha attended the

event.
Speaking at the event,
Major General al-Ansari
lauded the telecom departments work of providing
the most advanced telecommunications systems
to all sectors of the Interior
Ministry.
He appreciated their efforts to improve all security
functions and services pro-
vided by the MoI to citizens

and residents in Qatar.
He also expressed his
gratitude to the Qatari cadres who worked hard to accomplish this great achievement as well as the German
embassy for their support
and the Certication Company Arabian Quality Services. The Telecommunications Department received
ISO certication in 2011.
Gulf Times
QATAR
Vodafone, DFI join hands

to promote Ajyal lm fest
I
n line with its commitment

to support emerging local
talent and nurture young
creative voices, Vodafone Qatar has joined hands with the
Doha Film Institute (DFI) as a
signature sponsor and official
telecoms partner for the third
edition of the Ajyal Youth Film
Festival, to be held from November 29 to December 5 at Katara
Cultural Village.
Vodafone will also assist with
community outreach and marketing initiatives to raise further
awareness of the annual event
through SMS offers, in-store
promotional activities, exclusive
access to festival information for
Vodafone customers and screenings of the 2015 Ajyal trailer at
Villaggio and City Center Doha
cinemas.
Kyle Whitehill, CEO of Vodafone Qatar, said the telecom
major is committed to supporting community development
initiatives that contribute to the

growth of Qatars arts and creative industries.
The 2015 Ajyal Youth Film
Festival provides us with a
unique opportunity to connect
with the nations youth, one
of our key audiences, and their
passions through the universal
appeal of cinema, he said.
Fatma al-Remaihi, CEO of DFI,
stated that both the establishments share a combined vision to
promote Qatars young talent and
offer them dedicated platforms
for creative expression.
The Ajyal Youth Film Festival, in a very short span of time
has secured the allegiance of
leading organisations in Qatar,
who represent excellence in their
respective industries. The support of our partners enables us to
enhance the festival experience
and deliver a cultural event that
we can all be proud of.
The partnership enables Vo-
DFIs al-Remaihi (right) with Vodafone Qatars events and sponsorship senior manager Zeena Abu issa.
dafone Qatar to give its customers special access to the festival,

especially the young members
of the Falla Club. Designed exclusively for audiences under
24 years of age, Falla club offers
youth in Qatar benets that include free data bonus, a buy-one
get-one free cinema ticket and

standard snack combo on every
Vodafone Tuesday offer.
The third Ajyal Youth Film
Festival consists of daily public screenings of local and international lms; family days;
special events and exhibitions;
the Sandbox interactive digital

playground; school screenings;
and the Doha Film Experience
- Ajyals youth jury, where hundreds of young people between
the ages of 8 and 21 will watch
and discuss shorts and features
and decide on the winning lms.
QA donates QR83,000 to cancer society

Q
atar Airways has marked

Breast Cancer Awareness
Month with a series of
initiatives and activities to raise
both awareness and funds for
the disease that affects women
all around the world.
The airlines efforts were
recognised at the Beauty &
Beast Awards, held in Doha
recently, where Qatar Airways presented a cheque for
QR83,000. The money, which
was raised through bake sales
held at various locations in
Doha, will go towards Qatar

Cancer Society.
During the course of activities, Qatar Airways staff took
to their kitchens to whip up a
number of sweets and goodies
that were sold over the course
of the last week in October. Simultaneously, the airline organised a series of workshops and
awareness-raising events to help
alert staff to the dangers of the
disease and how periodic selfassessment and early diagnosis
are vital to successful treatment.
Qatar Airways senior vicepresident (customer experience)

Rossen Dimitrov said: It was
such a great honour to be able to
hand over a cheque from Qatar
Airways to Qatar Cancer Society in support of breast cancer
research and awareness. We also
held information sessions for our
female employees, where they had
the opportunity to speak to survivors and ask questions.
Female employees were encouraged to take part in one of
three information sessions held
on October 28. In addition to

survivors sharing their stories,
guest speakers such as Qatar
Airways senior vice-president
(HR employee services) Nabeela
Fakhri and head of medical services Dr Soha al-Bayat advised
employees on how to deal with
the disease.
Participants also had the opportunity to watch a video created
by the airline featuring one of its
employees, cabin services director
Mylah Loring. The video, which is
featured on the airlines multiple
social media channels, shares the

story of Mylahs breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and conquering of the disease.
As explained during the Qatar
Airways information sessions,
women are highly encouraged
to perform monthly breast selfexamination, with a professional
breast self-examination conducted by their GP or gynaecologist at least once a year.
Once women reach the age of
40, they are encouraged to get a
mammogram every two years.
QNCC a powerful
platform for a wide
variety of events
he Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC)

is poised to cater to the
growth of the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) industry by being
able to bring multiple events
to life simultaneously, general
manager Ken Jamieson has said.
We provide both the infrastructure and capabilities to logistically cater to meetings of 10
or 10,000, who will experience
the effortlessness of our facilities with the highest level of personalised expertise, he said in a
statement yesterday.
During the rst ten days of
October, QNCC hosted a number
of different international events,
attended by thousands of visitors at its iconic venue.
Our amply trained staff
members are devoted to enhancing customer satisfaction and
committed to bringing every
event to life with our state-ofthe-art conference and theatre
equipment. Our contribution to
the MICE industry in Qatar is an
ongoing one, and we will continue to invest in our human capital,
sustainability and venue capabilities to ensure that we continue to be the venue of choice
for events and conferences in the
Middle East, Jamieson said.
QNCC has the capabilities to
cater to events for a wide variety
of audiences and with a myriad
of requirements, he said while
observing that the incredibly
dedicated staff members can pull
together a family event, a tech
Qatar National Convention Centre.
exhibition or a medical conference and cater to the specic

requirements of each with uidity.
From October 1 to 9, QNCC
hosted the international theatre production of Peter Pan, a
family-oriented event, which
required complicated sound and
lighting equipment and theatre
style seating.
The second High Tech Port
advanced and strategic technology exhibition was hosted by
QNCC between October 6 and
8 under the auspices of HH the
Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad
al-Thani and Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdo an in the
partnership of MUSIAD (Independent Industrialists Businessmens Organisation) and the
Under Secretariat for Defence
Industries of Turkey.
With its high-prole guests,
the exhibition required increased
security, which was provided by
QNCC and did not interfere in
other events that were held at the
same time, Jamieson recalled.
For three days from today,
QNCC is hosting the World Innovation Summit for Education,
held under the auspices of Qatar Foundation chairperson HH
Sheikha Moza bint Nasser.
At QNCC we provide a powerful platform for a wide variety
of business and leisure events,
thus boosting Qatar as the regional and international conference hub for business meetings,
family entertainment and industry events, added Jamieson.
Gulf Times
QATAR
HTC plans to launch

peripheral artery
disease registry
T
he Hamad Trauma Centre (HTC)

is developing the rst registry
for peripheral artery disease
(PAD) in Qatar, to support ongoing research aimed at understanding the disease and improving its diagnosis and
treatment.
PAD is a condition in which narrowed arteries reduce blood ow to the
body. A research study conducted by
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)
on PAD prevalence in the Middle East
highlighted increasing cardiovascular
risk due to tobacco use, hypertension,
diabetes mellitus, obesity and hypercholesterolemia.
The study showed that in Qatar, PAD
affects approximately 38% of patients
with renal failure, 12% with diabetes
and 3% with coronary artery disease.
The establishment of the registry
was announced during a PAD Workshop held by HMC and attended by
about 80 physicians from different
subspecialties that are collaborating to
provide seamless care for patients with
PAD and associated diseases.
PAD signicantly affects the patients quality of life and is associated
with high rates of death and disability, said Dr Hassan al-Thani, head of
the HTC and chairperson of the PAD
Workshop.
The HTC is working closely with
HMCs Internal Medicine and Cardiology departments and the Primary
Health Care Corporation to create the
rst PAD registry in Qatar. This registry will help us to build on the achievements that the HTC team has made in
PAD research aimed at improving patient outcomes.
One of many continuing medical education activities provided by HMC for
its staff, the PAD Workshop gives clinicians and researchers the opportunity
to learn from experts in epidemiology,
Dr Hassan al-Thani: aiming to build on HTCs achievements

clinical research, vascular intervention, vascular medicine and surgery,
cardiology and interventional radiology.
The workshop aims to update our
physicians knowledge in both surgical and non-surgical management of
PAD as well as in conducting research.
It is part of our efforts to support our
clinicians in their daily practice and to
prepare them for their roles in developing the PAD registry, said Dr al-Thani.
Dr Ayman El-Menyar, clinical research consultant at HMCs Trauma
Surgery section and co-chairperson of
the PAD Workshop, said up to 50% of
patients with PAD may show no symptoms of the disease, which makes it difcult to diagnose in its early stages.
Others may experience muscle pain
or cramping in their legs or arms that
is triggered by activity, such as walking

or exercise, and that disappears after a
few minutes of rest. However, with severe forms of PAD the affected person
can have limb pain even while at rest.
Symptoms can range in severity
from mild discomfort to debilitating
pain. Dr El-Menyar recommends that
those who have a history of smoking,
diabetes, heart and kidney disease and
those who are of advanced age seek immediate professional medical advice,
if they feel any unexplained limb pain,
numbness or coldness.
If left untreated, PAD could lead to
ischemic ulcers (wounds that occur
due to poor blood ow in the legs) or
gangrene, a life-threatening condition
where there is premature death of tissues in the leg or other body parts due
to reduced blood supply.
Gulf Times
QATAR
UDC showcases its

safety solutions
T
Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Commercialbank Hussain Alfardan and senior officials of the
bank at the venue of the Civil Defence Exhibition and Conference yesterday. The bank is the `Platinum
Sponsor of the three-day event.
Commercialbank platinum
sponsor of civil defence show
atars rst private bank

the Commercialbank is
the platinum sponsor of
the 5th Civil Defence Exhibition
and Conference which is entering the second day today at the
Doha Exhibition and Convention
Centre.
The event, which is concluding tomorrow is showcasing
state-of-the-art services and
technology in the civil defence
and safety.
The conference and expo, held

once in two years is held under
the patronage of the Ministry of
Interior and The Administration of Civil Defence has a large
number of international and local companies participating.
Commercial Bank CEO Abdulla Saleh al-Raisi said: Commercial Bank is delighted to
support the Ministry of Interior
and the Civil Defence with our
platinum sponsorship for the
5th Civil Defence Exhibition and

Conference. The Civil defence
and protection of life and property in emergencies is an essential public service function that
is often taken for granted. As a
proud Qatari bank, we are committed to keeping pace with the
comprehensive
development
witnessed by the State of Qatar
and sponsoring events that are
for the ultimate benet of Qatari
society.
he United Development
Company (UDC), one of
the leading Qatari shareholding companies and master
developer of The Pearl-Qatar, is
participating in the 5th Civil Defence Exhibition and Conference
as platinum sponsor.
The event, held under the patronage of HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa
al-Thani, is running until tomorrow at the Doha Exhibition and
Convention Centre.
Displayed at the UDC stand at
the exhibition are the latest technology solutions used in safety
and construction, particularly at
the companys construction sites
in The Pearl-Qatar, and a number
of senior state officials and personalities visiting the companys
stand were briefed on the companys experiences in this eld.
The safety and protection of
our residents, our infrastructure,
and our community is our priority, UDC president and CEO
Ibrahim al-Othman said, while
speaking specically about The
Pearl-Qatar. As a socially responsible corporate citizen we
are delighted to contribute to this
important exhibition, which highlights the progress we have already
made. The event allows us to net-
HE the Transport Minister Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti and other dignitaries at the UDC pavilion at the Civil
Defence Exhibition yesterday.
work and meet with other individuals and organisations, and to
discover new ways, methods and
technologies that will improve
safety standards for everyone.
He further added: We are
also in total co-operation with
The General Directorate of Civil
Defence to ensure that all contractors operating on the Island
comply with the set regulations
for construction in Qatar, and
that they receive re safety and
other necessary clearances.
The Pearl-Qatar facilities and
common areas are equipped with

the latest reghting technology,
particularly for water-bound
environments. Everything from
safely working at dangerous
heights, safe use of machinery
and wearing the correct personal protective equipment and
clothing is strictly required and
followed. Even the daily temperatures during summer are monitored to ensure workers operate
within the legal safety limits.
All health and safety issues of
the residents are equally catered
Mannai Auto bookings open

for 2016 Cadillac models
M
annai Auto Group is accepting advance bookings
for three all-new V-Series
performance editions of its ATS and
CTS models.
The rst deliveries to customers
in Qatar are expected towards the
end of 2015 and in early 2016, starting with the all-new ATS-V and followed by the new generation CTS-V.
The two models boast classleading forced induction powertrains and a comprehensive suite
of design and performance systems
such as a Performance Data Recorder (PDR), which can capture its
drivers performance and analyse it
using Toolbox Telemetry software
developed by Cosworth.
Complementing
these
mechanical and exterior performance focused features are equally
driver-focused interiors with highperformance seats, optimised ergo-
nomics and interfaces.

Mohamed Helmy, group general
manager, Mannai Auto, said: The
next-generation ATS-V and CTSV are among the most anticipated
additions to Cadillacs line-up.
They are an extension of the everconnected lives of our customers.
On one hand, Performance Data
Capture and Telemetry will allow
them to hone their driving skills.
On the other, and in keeping with
the times, this performance data
can be shared with friends and on
social media. It will be revolutionary in terms of how our customers
share their love for driving with
their friends.
The 2016 ATS-V and ATS-V
Coupe make their global debut as
the brands inaugural luxury compact performance cars. The all-new
2016 CTS-V, meanwhile, takes on an
all-new persona in its latest iteration,
since it was rst unveiled in 2009.

Track-capable from the factory,
the 464-hp ATS-V features the exclusive Cadillac Twin Turbo V-6,
eight-speed paddle shift gears, and
0-96 acceleration of just 3.9 seconds. With a top speed of 320 kph
and 0-96kph performance in 3.7
seconds, the 640-hp CTS-V will be
the most powerful car in Cadillacs
112-year history.
Cadillacs new 2016 V-Series
models represent a signicant expansion of the brands elite, highperformance line. In addition to the
elevated performance, they now
reach a broader spectrum of drivers
by presenting two distinct personalities, size categories and price points.
The PDR allows drivers to record
high-denition video with data
overlays of their driving experiences
on and off the track, enabling data
analysis and sharing on social media.
ACDelco supervisor Antonio Fernandes, who finished second, with officials.
Parts Skills contest held for

ACDelcos sales consultants
CDelco, part of Jaidah

Automotives
exclusive Chevrolet
dealership in Qatar, has held
the rst Parts Skills competition for ACDelcos sales
consultants in partnership
with General Motors.
Competing against participants from the GCC region, Jaidah Automotives
wholesale division - representing Qatar - nished
second in the contest.
Following the launch of
the competition on October 6, ACDelco announced
that the contest would take
place annually.
The contests objective is
to bring together ACDelcos
sales consultants from various ACDelco distributors
across the GCC in order

to showcase the skills and
services offered to customers on a daily basis.
During the competition,
there were three stages that
ranked the 118 participants.
First, they had to pass two
rounds of online tests that
assessed their product and
marketing knowledge; in
the nal round, activities
included written tests and
role plays that evaluated
selling skills.
ACDelco supervisor Antonio Fernandes bagged the
second spot. He was awarded a runner-up cup, medal
and gold voucher by wellknown jeweller Joyalukkas.
Jaidah Automotives K
T Rao, manager of the au-
tomotive wholesale independent aftermarket, said:

The Parts Skill competition is a healthy way to engage our employees. It helps
improve their skills and enhance ACDelcos services,
and also boosts the spirit
of sportsmanship among
ACDelcos sales consultants
in the GCC region.
With this competition
being the rst of its kind,
were pleased to have witnessed its success. We hope
to see an even bigger number
of participants take part in
the competition next year,
which will hopefully include
a larger range of categories.
The competition took
place at the General Motors
Academy in Dubai.
The 2016 Cadillac ATS-V Coupe.
The 2016 Cadillac CTS-V Sedan.
to through a highly-trained and

experienced health and safety
team using some of the most sophisticated technology available
to guarantee the safety and security of visitors and residents.
In order to secure the 35km
coastline of The Pearl-Qatar,
high-tech and high-speed boats,
state-of-the-art
technology
and navigation systems combine
with the Qatari Coastguard to
provide the best response to sea
searches, risk operations, and
emergency cases.
Gulf Times
REGION
Iran starts
deactivating
centrifuges:
atomic chief
Agencies
Dubai/Tokyo
ran has begun shutting down

uranium enrichment centrifuges under the terms of a deal
struck with six world powers in
July on limiting its nuclear programme, Tehrans atomic energy
chief said yesterday during a visit
to Tokyo.
We have already started to
take our measures vis-a-vis the
removal of the centrifuge machines - the extra centrifuge machines. We hope in two months
time we are able to exhaust our
commitment, Ali Akbar Salehi
told public broadcaster NHK.
NHKs website also quoted
Salehi as saying it was important
that there be balance in implementing the deal, signalling
Tehrans stance that all sanctions against Iran should be lifted
promptly in step with its dismantling of nuclear infrastructure.
Under the July 14 agreement,
Iran is to curb its nuclear programme under UN supervision to
ensure it cannot be used to make
a nuclear weapon, in exchange
for the removal of sanctions that
have isolated Tehran and hobbled
its economy.
In a separate development that
appeared to conrm that Iran had
begun implementing its side of
the deal, 20 hardline conservative members of Irans parliament wrote to President Hassan
Rouhani to complain about the
deactivation of centrifuges in two
enrichment plants at Natanz and

Fordow.
Unfortunately in the last two
days some contractors entered
Fordow and started dismantling
centrifuges... they said they could
nish the job in two weeks, Fars
cited the lawmakers, among those
loath to accept the nuclear deal,
as saying.
Irans
highest
authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, conditionally approved the deal last month, but
the lawmakers said that beginning implementation so soon was
against his directives.
A clear majority of legislators
said yesterday the Islamic Republic will not abandon the slogan of
Death to America despite the
nuclear accord.
The martyr-nurturing nation of Iran is not at all prepared
to abandon the slogan of Death
to America under the pretext of a
nuclear agreement, 192 members
of Irans 290-seat parliament said
in a statement carried by state
news agency Irna.
They said the slogan, chanted
at Friday prayers in mosques and
at protests, had turned into the
symbol of the Islamic Republic
and all struggling nations.
In the aftermath of the nuclear
deal, the government and the Majlis (parliament) should act carefully in line with the honourable
leaders wise guidance, the legislators said, referring to Khamenei.
Khamenei has repeatedly
warned against US inltration
of the values of Iranian society.
A man gestures as he tries to save a vehicle swept away by flood waters on the Yemeni island of Socotra yesterday.
Cyclone kills 3, injures

scores on Yemen island
Amateur pictures and videos
posted on social media show
torrents of water washing
through the streets of the
island capital Hadibu
Reuters
Aden
rare tropical cyclone

packing hurricane-force
winds killed three people
and injured scores on the exotic
Yemeni island of Socotra yesterday and then headed towards
a gas terminal and an Al Qaedacontrolled town on the mainland.
The World Meteorological
Organisation initially rated the
storm, named Chapala, as potentially very dangerous, but
later yesterday downgraded it to
very severe as sustained winds
slowed marginally to 150-160

kmh.
Maps plotting the storms
course after Socotra showed it
making landfall this morning at
Balhaf, site of Yemens liqueed
natural gas terminal, and weakening as it advanced towards the
capital Sanaa in the countrys
north.
The UN humanitarian office
said it expected Chapala to be
mostly felt in the southern coastal governorates of Shabwah and
Hadramout, where 1.4mn of the
1.8mn population need humanitarian aid due to Yemens ongoing war.
The cyclone rst hit Socotra,
an island of rare natural beauty
with a prehistoric feel - hundreds
of plant species found nowhere
else on Earth - 380km off Yemen
in the Arabian Sea. Its 50,000
residents speak their own language.

Amateur pictures and videos
posted on social media, which
could not be immediately veried, showed torrents of water
washing through the streets of
the island capital Hadibu.
Three people were killed,
around 100 have been injured,
said a local official, without describing the causes of death.
Mohamed Alarqbi of the Socotra Environment Office said
torrential rains had pounded impoverished coastal villages.
Around 1,500 families have
ed to the interior and to the
mountains. Theres absolutely no
help coming from the outside.
Long remote, the island has
become especially cut off from
mainland Yemen by a sevenmonth war there between Iran-
Two Iranian journalists held as crackdown widens

Reuters
Dubai
ranian authorities arrested two

prominent journalists yesterday
as the head of the judiciary dismissed international condemnation
of what appears to be a crackdown
on writers and artists.
Isa Saharkhiz, a well-known independent journalist, was arrested
by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
Corps (IRGC) on charges of insulting the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and propaganda
against the regime, his son Mehdi
said in a telephone interview from
the United States.
Ehsan Mazandarani, managing director of the Farikhtegan newspaper,

was arrested on security charges, the
Tasnim news agency, which is linked
to the IRGC, said. Staff at the paper
conrmed the arrest.
The IRGC answers directly to
Khamenei and is not accountable to
the government. It works with the
conservative judiciary to counter
perceived internal threats to the Islamic Republic.
The arrests came after two Iranian poets and a lmmaker were
sentenced to long prison terms and
lashes last month on charges including insulting sanctities and propaganda against the state.
Filmmaker Keywan Karimi was
sentenced to six years in prison and

223 lashes, and poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi were handed 11.5 years and nine years in prison
respectively, and 99 lashes each.
On Sunday, the PEN American
Center, an organisation advocating on behalf of writers persecuted
because of their work, wrote to
Khamenei asking him to nullify the
sentences against the poets.
We are deeply concerned by the
inhumane sentences ... for the simple act of expressing themselves by
creating art. The act of writing poetry is no crime, read the petition,
signed by 116 poets and writers, on
PENs website.
Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, the head
of Irans judiciary, dismissed allegations of human rights abuses in the

country yesterday, and was quoted
by state news agency Irna as saying
that Tehran will never surrender to
the human rights as interpreted by
the West.
IRGC forces arrested Saharkhiz in
his home early in the morning and
conscated his electronic equipment, his son said, adding that he
had already begun a hunger strike.
The veteran journalist, who served
as deputy culture minister under
the reformist president Mohamed
Khatami, was previously arrested in
2009, shortly after widespread reformist protests gripped Tehran, and
jailed for four years.
Kia listed among best

brands for fourth year
ia has announced
it has been ranked
74th on Interbrands
2015 list of 100 Best Global
Brands.
The international brand
consultancy featured the
car manufacturer on its exclusive list for Best Global
Brands for the fourth consecutive year, recognising
Kias growth in global prominence, according to a statement.
Interbrand
attributed
Kias success to excellent
design, high quality and innovative brand management
in the global markets.
Kias commercial performance in the past calendar year is admirable given
the challenging economic
climate around the world.
The manufacturer saw its
brand value increase by 5%
and this sustained growth
gives Kia a current estimated
value of $5.7bn. The companys total brand value has
grown by a remarkable 530%
Kia Sportage.
since 2007, the statement

notes.
Alex Chung, president
of Kia Motors Middle East
and Africa regional headquarters, said: We are very
proud to be featured as one
of the top 100 global brands
for 2015; such an honourable
recognition is an incredible
motivation for us to raise the
bar for ourselves every year.
2015 has proven to be a
highly rewarding year for
Kia, receiving numerous accolades such as being ranked
number one among mass
market brands in JD Powers
Initial Quality Study, the
statement adds.
The Soul EV, the manufacturers rst electronic vehicle sold, was crowned Car of
the Year in Norway and also
won the Best Eco-Friendly
Vehicle at Motorweeks 2015
Drivers Choice Awards.
Kias rst appearance on
Interbrands list of 100 Best
Global Brands was in 2012,
ranking 87th.
allied ghters and a coalition of

Arab states led by Saudi Arabia.
Yemen, generally arid and hot,
receives relatively little rainfall
and the infrastructure in the Arabian Peninsulas poorest country
is ill-equipped built to handle
large deluges.
Close to the storms path later
yesterday was the port of Mukalla, which has been run by a tribal
council and Al Qaeda militants
since the army and government
institutions withdrew in April.
One of the militants in the
town posted pictures on his
Twitter page of a convoy of pickup trucks crudely labelled rescue team patrolling the seafront
on Sunday night.
God protect us, the winds are
not normal in Mukalla, may the
Lord deliver us ... Your prayers,
please, O monotheists, said the
man, going by the name of Laith

al-Mukalla.
He
recommended
packing ashlights and rst aid kits.
Other, earlier posts on Twitter
showed images of his Al Qaeda comrades demolishing the
shrines of local saints last week.
The authenticity of the account could not be veried.
Residents worried that Yemens power vacuum would mean
no authorities were in a position
to deal with storm damage.
The sea water level has risen
by 9m and has destroyed Mukallas seafront, said resident
Mohamed Ba Zuhair. Many
people have left their homes and
are seeking refuge in schools. No
relief or aid efforts are under way
by either the tribal council or Al
Qaeda, and the situation is really
bad.
10
Gulf Times
ARAB WORLD
Russia carries out air strikes around Palmyra

AFP
Moscow
ussias air force has struck

the area around the Islamic State-held ancient
city of Palmyra, the defence
ministry said yesterday, as Moscow pressed on with its bombing
campaign in Syria.
Su-25 jets hit a fortied IS position in the Tadmur area of Homs
province, Moscows defence ministry said, using the Arabic name

for Palmyra.
As a result of a direct strike,
a fortication, an underground
bunker and anti-aircraft artillery
were destroyed.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of
the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said
that Russian planes had targeted
Palmyra with strikes on Monday.
He said several strikes hit the
citys historic citadel, but had no

further details.
Khaled al-Homsi, an activist
from Palmyra, also reported Russian strikes on the citadel on the
western edges of the historical site.
The extent of the damage could
not be veried, he said.
The Russian defence ministry
previously said its warplanes had
struck close to the ancient city but
insisted that it avoided historic
sites.
Syrian state television said in

early October that Russian warplanes, acting in co-ordination
with the Syrian air force, had
struck IS targets in and around
the city. Elsewhere in Homs province, the Observatory said at least
10 people had been killed and more
wounded in apparent Russian
strikes on Al Qaryatain, an IS-held
town.
Russia did not specify when the
strikes on Palmyra took place, but
said its jets struck over 237 targets

in Syria over the past two days in a
statement yesterday.
Russian warplanes pounded
sites belonging to IS and Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front in the
Homs, Hama, Latakia, Damascus,
Aleppo and Raqa provinces, Moscow said.
In Aleppo province, Moscow
said it hit a training camp for foreign ghters and an improvised
explosive device production plant,
and destroyed two armoured vehicles in Hama province.

Russias military said it also
struck a key Al Nusra Front command post on a strategic hill in the
coastal Latakia region.
The latest raids came after broad
international talks to end the conict were held on Friday in Vienna.
For the rst time, the meeting
brought together all the main outside players in the crisis, including
Russia and Iran, key allies of the
government of President Bashar

al-Assad.
Participants agreed to ask the
United Nations to broker a peace
deal between the regime and oppositionwhich were not represented at the talksto clear the
way for a new constitution and
UN-supervised elections.
Russia has been bombing in
Syria since the end of September
to help troops loyal to Assad ght
what it calls terrorists.
Parliament
puts brakes
on Abadis
reform bid
Agencies
Baghdad
I
A female Palestinian demonstrator uses an axe to try and destroy a part of the controversial barrier separating the West Bank city of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem, during
clashes with Israeli security forces yesterday.
Palestinian shot dead,

four Israelis stabbed
A Palestinian teenager
attempted to stab an Israeli
soldier at a border crossing
in the northern West Bank
and was shot dead, Israeli
police say
AFP
Jerusalem
our Israelis were stabbed

in separate attacks yesterday, the rst outside Jerusalem and the West Bank in 10
days, while a Palestinian teenager who tried to knife a soldier
was shot dead.
Israeli border police also
stormed a Palestinian university
in the occupied West Bank, following more than a month of
violence that has raised fears of a
third Palestinian Intifada, or uprising.
An Israeli in his seventies was
left in serious condition after he

was stabbed by a Palestinian in
Netanya, 30km north of Tel Aviv.
The attacker was neutralised,
police said.
Earlier, three Israelis were
stabbed in attacks near the central bus station in Rishon LeZion,
about 10km south of Tel Aviv, a
police statement said.
The attacker, a 19-year-old
Palestinian from Hebron in the
West Bank, stabbed two people on the pavement and a third
in a clothes store, the statement
added.
The foreign ministry said one
of the victims was an 80-yearold woman, while the countrys
medical service said two of the
three Israelis stabbed were in severe condition.
The attacker was arrested by
security forces after he was locked
in the shop, police said.
The attacks were the rst out-
Howls of protest over

call to deport strays
AFP
Jerusalem
sraels far-right Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel has

infuriated animal lovers by
suggesting that the countrys
millions of stray cats and dogs
be deported rather than castrated.
Ariel wrote to Environment
Minister Avi Gabai proposing
that the budget allocated to castration be used to deport them
to a foreign country, Yediot
Aharonot newspaper reported
yesterday.
Israels society for the protection of animals condemned
what it called this appalling
proposal.
The problem of stray cats
is serious and we estimate that
there are nearly two million cats
on the streets of Israel, it said in
a statement.
The money allocated for
castration cannot be used for
anything else and we will appeal
against this initiative, it added.
Ariel shot back saying he was

well intentioned and that his
only aim was to do the utmost to
avoid making the animals suffer.
But opposition lawmaker
Yoel Hasson also denounced as
medieval and immoral the
proposal by Ariel, who belongs
to the far-right religious Jewish
Home party.
If we needed additional
proof of the inuence that religious extremism has on life in
Israel, minister Ariel has proven
to us that we are heading toward
a theocracy, said Hasson.
Jewish law bans the castration
of animals, stipulating that it is
a form of cruelty, while a 1994
Israeli law prohibits the torture,
poisoning and abandonment of
animals.
This proposal is immoral.
Today cats. Tomorrow the minister will nd a religious reason
for deporting human beings,
said Hasson.
Ariel once belonged to a farright party whose members had
suggested the voluntary deportation of Palestinians.
side of the West Bank and Jerusalem since October 22, according
to the Israeli authorities.
Nine Israelis, 68 Palestiniansaround half of them alleged attackersand an Arab
Israeli have been killed in a wave
of violence since the start of October.
The foreign ministry has reported 57 stabbing attempts,
six car rammings and five
shootings since the beginning
of October.
The violence was originally
focused in and around Jerusalem but the epicentre moved to
Hebron over the past week.
The random nature of the attacks, and the fact that most of
the assailants were apparently
acting alone, has made it harder
for Israeli security forces to react.
Police also said they uncovered an explosive device when
they searched a car yesterday near

Hebron.
The last successful bomb attack in Israel was on a bus in Tel
Aviv in November 2012, according
to Israeli officials.
Also yesterday, a 16-year-old
Palestinian, Ahmed Abu El Rob,
attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a border crossing in the
northern West Bank and was shot
dead, police said.
A second Palestinian, allegedly
an accomplice, was arrested.
Elsewhere, Israeli border police
stormed a university in the town
of Abu Dis after clashes with students protesting against Israels
separation barrier and Palestinian
deaths.
The clashes erupted after students from Al Quds University
gathered to demonstrate at the
foot of the controversial barrier
that separates Abu Dis from Jerusalem.
UN pushes for nal

Libyan unity accord
Reuters
Tripoli
he United Nations yesterday urged Libyas

warring factions to
agree on a unity government
after they were offered proposals to ease concerns over
regional distribution in a UNbacked power-sharing deal.
The UN said in a statement
after consultations with both
sides that a proposed presidential council would be expanded
from six to nine members, including a prime minister, ve
deputy premiers and three senior ministers.
Members of Libyas two rival
parliaments were scheduled to
meet separately to discuss the
UN proposal today.
The product of months of negotiations, the UN proposal for
a national government includes
members of both factions and
attempts to reect Libyas traditional regional balance. Hardliners have resisted the deal.
Four years after the fall of

Muammar Gadda, the North
African state is mired in a conict between two rival governments and loose coalitions of
armed factions that back them
in a struggle for control.
Libyas recognised government and its elected parliament
have operated out of the eastern
city of Tobruk since the Libyan
Dawn armed faction took over
the capital Tripoli last year, set
up a government and reinstated
the former parliament.
The country has no national
army. Rebel militias fought together against Gadda in 2011,
but then turned against one another and are often more loyal to
their cities or tribes or Libyas
east, west or southern regions
than to the state.
Western governments see the
UN deal as the best option to
deal with Libyas crisis, which
has allowed Islamic State ghters to gain ground and people
smugglers to take advantage of
the chaos to ship thousands of
migrants to Europe.
Israel says the barrier, which

stretches inside the West Bank, is
necessary for security, while Palestinians brand it an apartheid
wall.
At least one protester used an
axe as a makeshift sledgehammer
to strike the wall.
The students then pulled back
into the campus and rained stones
on border police who approached
the gates.
Israeli forces retaliated by ring
rubber bullets, teargas and stun
grenades before forcing open the
gates of the university and going
inside.
The number of wounded in the
confrontation was not immediately clear.
But Palestinian medics said
many people were hit by rubber
bullets and injured in the upper
parts of their bodies, while others
suffered from smoke inhalation
due to teargas.
raqs parliament voted unanimously yesterday to bar

the government from passing important reforms without
its approval in an effort to curb
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi
amid discontent over his leadership style, lawmakers said.
The chamber acted after Abadi
unilaterally enacted reforms in August that it deemed a violation of the
constitution including his dismissal
of the vice presidents and deputy
prime ministers and cuts to salaries
of government employees.
Under this resolution no more
absolute authorities for the prime
minister, one member of parliament, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
Abadis spokesman, Saad al-Hadithi, said that he does not consider
the parliamentary statement to be a
problem, saying that parliament approved the premiers proposals and
that the legislatures role had in any
case not been usurped.
Any rise in political tensions
could undermine Baghdads efforts to tackle an economic crisis
and form a united front against
Islamic State militants posing the
worst threat to Iraq since a USled invasion that toppled Saddam
Hussain in 2003.
Last week over 60 members of
Iraqs ruling State of Law coalition threatened to pull parliamentary support for Abadis reforms
- aimed at stamping out corruption and incompetence - if he did
not heed their demands for wider
consultation.
Many of the lawmakers who
signed the letter are supporters
of Abadis predecessor, Nouri alMaliki, whom critics branded as a
polarising and authoritarian gure, allegations he denies.
Abadi announced his reform
campaign in August after popular
protests gathered steam over graft
and poor water and electricity services in Iraq, a leading Opec oil producer.
EU diplomacy
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini meets

Egypts Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo yesterday.
The reforms aimed to scrap

senior political offices that have
become a vehicle for patronage for
some of the most powerful people
in Iraq and root out incompetence
which has undermined the battle
against Islamist militancy.
But while parliament had now
put the brakes on Abadis authority, a showdown could loom,
said Wathiq al-Hashimi, chairman of the Iraqi Group for Strategic Studies think tank.
The question will be, is he is going to survive? I think parliaments
move today is a test. The next likely
scenario could be withdrawing condence from Abadi, he said.
Hashimi added that growing
parliamentary objections to Abadis statecraft and a severe shortage of cash will eventually lead
Abadi to direct a confrontation
with his own party.
Graft and poor morale in the
armed forces were signicant reasons why Islamic State insurgents
swept through northern Iraq last
year virtually unopposed, and
then proceeded to seize about a
third of the country.
The ultra-hardline group,
which also controls large parts of
neighbouring Syria, has been fuelling a sectarian civil war ravaging
parts of Iraq.
Some of Abadis reforms have
been implemented, while others
appear to have stalled. Iraqs three
vice presidents, whose positions
were to be cut, remain in place.
When he took office in September 2014, Abadi was seen as
a consensus builder who could
heal divisions between Iraqs Shia
Muslims, Sunnis and non-Arab
Kurds that sharpened during Malikis tenure.
But senior officials have said
they are not consulted about Abadis reforms and often learn about
them through the media.
Parliament rejects any parties, including the government,
overlooking its authorities, said
another MP. The resolution was
passed unanimously and it dictates that any decision needs the
approval of parliament.
Kuwait court
jails five over
IS fundraising
A lower court in Kuwait
yesterday sentenced five
men to 10 years in jail each
for raising funds for the
Islamic State militant group.
Three of those convicted
were Kuwaiti citizens,
according to the court
ruling.
The court ordered that the
remaining two, who were
foreigners, be deported
after serving the jail term.
Their nationalities were not
immediately clear.
It also acquitted two
others.
The men were charged
with raising about 400,000
Kuwaiti dinars and
transferring the funds to IS.
Over the past year,
Kuwaiti courts have issued
several rulings against IS
supporters.
In September, a lower
court sentenced seven
people, including five
in absentia, to death for
helping a Saudi suicide
bomber carry out an
attack on a Shia mosque
in Kuwait that killed 26
worshippers and wounded
hundreds.
Gulf Times
11
ARAB WORLD
13 UN
hostages
freed in
S Sudan
Crash caused
by external
factors, says
Russia airline
The Russian airline
Kogalymavia rules out a
technical fault or human
error in the crash of a
passenger jet in Egypt
AFP
Moscow
he Russian passenger jet

that crashed in Egypt
killing all 224 people on
board came down due to external factors, the airline said
yesterday, as relatives began
identifying their loved ones in
St Petersburg.
Senior Kogalymavia executive Alexander Smirnov said
that no technical failures
could account for why the Airbus 321 would have broken up
in mid-air, as investigators have
said happened.
The only explanation is
some kind of external action,
Smirnov told a news conference
in Moscow, without elaborating, adding that the doomed jet
was in excellent technical condition.
Both Cairo and Moscow
have played down the claim
from Egypts Islamic State (IS)
branch that it brought down the

aircraft own by Kogalymavia
between holiday destination
Sharm El Sheikh and Russias
second largest city on Saturday.
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said
yesterday he could not rule out
IS involvement, but thought it
unlikely.
We dont have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet, he said.
Investigators are examining all possible causes as they
comb the remote crash site in
the Sinai Peninsula as part of
an Egyptian-led probe into the
disaster that also involves experts from Russia, Airbus, and
Ireland, where the aircraft was
registered.
President Vladimir Putin
described the crash, Russias
worst air disaster, as a huge
tragedy in his rst comments
since Saturdays catastrophe,
at a meeting with his transport
minister yesterday.
Without any doubt everything must be done to create an
objective picture of events so
that we know what happened
and can react accordingly, Putin said.
The head of Russias aviation

authority Alexander Neradko
slammed the airlines claims
that external factors were to
blame as premature and not
based on any real facts in televised comments.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov said Moscow cannot
exclude any version of what
caused the crash as investigations were still ongoing, but
warned against guessing at
the reason.
Russia has a dismal air safety
record, and while larger carriers
have begun upgrading ageing
eets, the crash is likely to raise
concerns about smaller airlines
such as Kogalymavia.
The companys executive
Smirnov said the firm had
ruled out a technical fault
or human error and said the
plane had sustained significant damage to its construction that did not allow it to
continue the flight.
The crew totally lost control
and for that reason there was
not one attempt to get in contact and report on the accident
situation on board, Smirnov
said.
The plane was ying out of
AFP
Juba
Kogalymavia airline deputy general directors (from left) Alexander Smirnov and Andrei Averyanov and
Oxana Golovina, company owner representative, hold a news conference in Moscow yesterday.
controlthat is, it wasnt ying, it was falling, he said.

The claims by the airline
came as relatives of those who
died in the crash began the
painful process of identifying their loved ones after a rst
plane delivered the remains of
140 victims to St Petersburg.
The process of identication has begun. It is complex,
meticulous work, St Petersburg
deputy governor Igor Albin told
journalists outside the crematorium where the remains are
being stored.
Cars meanwhile ferried relatives of the deadoverwhelmingly Russian holidaymakers
from the St Petersburg areato
the facility.
Family members had already

been providing DNA samples
at a crisis centre set up close to
St Petersburgs Pulkovo airport,
now the site of an impromptu
memorial where people have
brought owers and cuddly toys
to commemorate the victims,
many of them children.
St Petersburg was observing
a second day of mourning for
those lost in the crash.
Investigators in the Egyptian-led probe returned to the
vast crash site yesterday, an ofcial said, without giving the
nationalities of those involved.
The crash site in the Wadi alZolomat area of North Sinai was
littered with blackened aircraft
parts and the smell of burnt
metal lingered on Sunday.

A representative of Russias
emergencies ministry told news
agencies that investigators had
so far found 12 segments of the
planes fuselage and personal
belongings.
Egyptian authorities said that
investigators from the probe
team are currently examining
the black box on-board recorders from the doomed jet in
Cairo.
Analysts have dismissed
claims the jet could have been
shot down by IS-affiliated
groups in the region if it was
ying at its cruising height of
30,000 feet, but did not rule out
that a bomb might have been
planted on board.
hirteen United Nations

workers in South Sudan
kidnapped by rebels have
been safely freed a week after
their abduction, the UN said
yesterday.
Around 100 rebel ghters,
who have been battling the government for almost two years,
seized 31 members of the UN
peacekeeping mission in South
Sudan (UNMISS) last week.
While 18 Bangladeshi peacekeepers were freed soon after
they were held, the 13 remaining
UN workersall South Sudanese
nationalswere released by the
rebels on Sunday, UNMISS said
yesterday.
The UN had last week said
only 12 were still being held.
However, it said 13 were released
on Sunday.
All were on a river barge carrying fuel for the UN mission.
While the barge was also released, the UN said that rebels
had stolen the 55,000 litres of
fuel it was carrying, as well as
communications equipment, an
inatable boat, and seven weapons.
UN chief in South Sudan Ellen Margrethe Loj said she was
relieved by the safe release of all
UN personnel.
She had previously warned
that the kidnap may constitute
a war crime.
The UN had last week said
only 12 hostages were still being
held. However, it said 13 were released on Sunday.
Some 12,500 peacekeepers are
deployed in South Sudan, which
has been wracked by conict
since December 2013.
12
Gulf Times
AFRICA
MURDERED
LAST CALL
FRAGILE SECURITY
PRIZED BOOTY
EXIT WOES
Policemen held over killing

captured on CCTV camera
Burundi gives gunmen

deadline to end attacks
14 humanitarian workers
kidnapped in east Congo
Confiscated abalone stolen

at gunpoint in South Africa
DR Congo clears foreign

adoptions for 72 children
Four South African police officers were arrested

yesterday on murder charges after a video
emerged of an execution-style killing of a
suspected robber on a suburban street. Footage
from closed circuit television showed police
firing at the man from close range as he lay
on the ground in Krugersdorp, a town west
of Johannesburg. The three constables and a
sergeant are due to appear in court later this
week over the killing Mlungisi Mpanza, 36, in
broad daylight on October 19. The video shows
Mpanza lying on a pavement, with his gun
beside him, as a policeman takes aim and shoots
him with a pistol.
Burundis President Pierre Nkurunziza yesterday

gave gunmen a five-day deadline to lay down
arms after a string of battles with security forces,
with eight fighters killed in the latest attacks.
Nkurunziza said the November 7 deadline was
a last call, as he warned those who commit
crimes to abandon this path, in a speech
broadcast on state radio. Those gunmen who
chose to surrender under the amnesty will be
given two weeks of civic training and then be
freed with no further punishment. In the latest
violence, eight gunmen were killed and 18 others
were captured after clashes with police outside
the capital Bujumbura, police said yesterday.
Fourteen humanitarian workers have been

kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo, the latest in a spate of hostage-takings in
the region, the UN and local activists said yesterday.
The employees of a Congolese non-governmental
organisation were abducted on Sunday in the
Rutshuru region in North Kivu province, the UN
mission in Congos humanitarian coordinator,
Mamadou Diallo, said. This kidnapping confirms
the fragile security situation in which the various
humanitarian organisations work and whose victims
are the local population, Diallo said. Diallo did not
say what organisation the workers belonged to or
who is believed to be responsible for the attack.
Poached abalone confiscated by South African

police has been stolen by gunmen in a raid on
a state facility where illicit hoards of the marine
delicacy were stored, a government ministry said
yesterday. Abalone - mollusks found in cold South
African coastal waters - face extinction in the region
because of rampant poaching to meet demand in
Asia, where their pearly flesh is highly prized on the
dinner table. The ministry responsible for fisheries
said an undisclosed amount had been stolen last
week from a site at Cape Towns Paarden Island.
A group of armed and masked men overpowered
security personnel tasked with protecting the
storage facility, it said in a statement.
The Democratic Republic of Congo said yesterday

that 72 children adopted by foreign couples could
now leave the country after being held up for two
years. Justice Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba
announced the lifting on the halt on international
adoptions after meeting the ambassadors of the
main countries from where the adoptive parents
originate. Weve authorised the release of 69
children from the national territory, the minister
told reporters. Weve also permitted the release
of three children suffering serious illnesses. The
children in question are being adopted by families
from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Switzerland and the US.
Strife back
in Bangui
ahead of
Pope visit
By Crispin Dembassa-Kette, Reuters
Bangui
rmed men in the capital of Central

African Republic have slit a persons
throat and set re to scores of homes,
in a cycle of violence that could further delay
elections and prevent a visit this month by
Pope Francis.
Witnesses said hundreds of people ed their
homes in Bangui yesterday after the weekends
attack by men from the mainly Muslim PK-5
neighbourhood in which more than a dozen
people were also shot and wounded.
It was not immediately clear who the targets and attackers were, but the violence is
part of a pattern in which at least 90 people
have been killed since late September - after a
Muslim man was found murdered.
The majority Christian country plunged
into tumult when mostly Muslim Seleka rebels
seized power in a coup in 2013, prompting lethal reprisals by Christian militias known as
anti-balaka, and repeated bouts of bloodletting since then.
The latest attack appeared to be retaliation for a mob attack on PK-5 on Thursday in
which four people were killed.
The Pope is due to visit Bangui on November 28-29 and go to a mosque in one of
the most dangerous neighbourhoods, but he
hinted in an address on Sunday that the violence might lead him to cancel the trip.
Families in the Fatima district grabbed
bedding and a few possessions and headed
to camps for displaced people or to stay with
families in the citys south, where priests had
mobilised to welcome them, witnesses said.
There is no disarmament in Central Africa. That is why the war still goes on, said
Eugene Gazalima, a farmer and resident of the
Fatima district. If we had the disarmament,
this war could not go on like that.
UN peacekeepers have been stationed in
PK-5 since last year. Tens of thousands of
Muslims were driven from their homes in the
capital last year by anti-balaka groups.
Authorities delayed presidential and parliamentary elections, in part because of the
unrest, to Dec. 13, and they may be pushed
back yet further if the spike in violence persists.
A peace deal signed in May between 10
armed groups required them to disarm and
possibly be charged with war crimes during
the two-year conict, but the brief optimism
from the accord seems to have run out.
Nearly 400,000 people have ed to
camps during the conict, and an additional
440,000 have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, according to an October report
from the UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs.
Ivorian Constitutional Council president Mamadou Kone announces the definitive results of the presidential election at the Constitutional Council
headquarters in Abidjan yesterday.
Constitutional Council conrms Ouattara re-election

AFP
Abidjan
vory Coasts Constitutional

Council yesterday conrmed the
re-election of President Alassane Ouattara for ve years in an ofcial proclamation eight days after
the vote. It is tting to proclaim
him elected as president of the Republic of Ivory Coast, said Mamadou
Kone, president of the council.
Kone earlier said that Ouattara

had won 2,618,229 votes out of a
total 3,129,742 ballots cast in the
west African country, giving him a
score of 83.66%.
The council upheld the results
issued by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), which put
the turnout at 52.86% of 6,301,189
registered voters.
Ouattara, 73, an economist whose
rst election victory in 2010 triggered several months of violence and
bloodshed, solidly beat main opposition candidate Pascal Affi NGuessan,

who took 9.29% of the votes.
Affi NGuessan represented the
Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) founded by former president Laurent
Gbagbo, who is behind bars at the
International Criminal Court in The
Hague facing trial in relation to the
2010-2011 post-election violence.
Some of his supporters had called
for a boycott of the election to show
their solidarity with Gbagbo.
Violence broke out at the last

election, claiming 3,000 lives, after the electoral commission declared Ouattara the victor while
the Constitutional Council said
Gbagbo was the winner. The international community backed Ouattara, who took power in April 2011
after Gbagbo was arrested by force.
In sharp contrast with the violence, observers described the latest poll as generally smooth and
peaceful.
Guineas Conde urged to form consensus cabinet

AFP
Dakar
uineas President Alpha

Conde, who was re-elected
in a controversial landslide
vote last month, was urged yesterday
by the UNs special regional envoy
to form a wide consensus government in the interests of peace.
Speaking in Senegal, the UNs
west Africa envoy Mohamed Ibn
Chambas praised Conde for holding talks with one of the troubled
countrys opposition leaders in the
days following the October 11 vote.
I hope this is just the beginning
of wide consultations by the president to form a wide consensus government following his victory, said
Ibn Chambas. A consensus cabinet
would be good for the region while
helping Guinea get back on its feet
after the Ebola crisis that added to
its economic woes, he added.
Guineas Constitutional Court

on Saturday formally conrmed
Condes landslide re-election with
57.84% of the vote, dismissing opposition claims of vote rigging and
fraud in the contested polls.
Appeals lodged by three of the
seven candidates who ran against
Conde that had called for the vote
to be annulled were rejected by
the court, which said they either
lacked proof or had no bearing on
the results.
Condes main rival, opposition

leader and former premier Cellou
Dalein Diallo came second in the
election with 31.45%.
He has refused to recognise the
outcome of what he labelled an illegal vote tainted by mismanagement and fraud.
African and European Union observers also noted organisational
problems but commended the high
turnout and the peaceful nature of
the polling day.
Gangs battle for control of abandoned SA mines

By Beatrice Debut, AFP
Springs, South Africa
ith his armoured 4x4 parked

at the entrance of an abandoned gold mine shaft in
South Africa, the security guard armed
with a gun and a bullet proof vest makes
for a menacing sentry.
But he couldnt do anything when
ve illegal miners were killed in September by gangs ghting to control the
Grootvlei mine in Springs, a blue-collar
town located 30km east of Johannesburg.
Bullets were ying. I called the po-
lice but they only came in the morning

to pick up the bodies, said the security
guard, speaking on condition of anonymity. Police are too afraid to come
here.
South Africa has approximately
6,000 mines that companies have been
abandoned in the face of falling prots.
The mines attract thousands illegal
miners - known as zama zamas (Zulu
for those who try their luck) - who
descend into the ageing shafts and
wells, sometimes living for months underground digging for nuggets of gold.
There are between 8,000 and 30,000
illegal miners in the country, according to the South African Human Rights
Commission, a national institution designed to protect human rights.

Illegal mining is dangerous work
to begin with - and today it is getting
worse, with the emergence of armed
gangs kidnapping rival miners and forcing them to work in slave-like conditions underground.
In September, about 20 people were
killed in an outbreak of gang violence
around Johannesburg, the heart of
South Africas mining industry, known
as the City of Gold.
There is an increasing level of violence, gang war and intimidation by
illegal miners, said the Chamber of
Mines of South Africa, the countrys
mining industry employers organisation, in a report this year.

Illegal mining activities and organised crime are interrelated. Illegal
miners are often heavily armed, have
explosives and set ambushes and body
traps for employees, security and rival
groups of illegal miners.
The escalating violence is troubling
surrounding communities.
The kids who are four years old
know the sound of the gun, said
Springs resident Samson Jerry Aphane,
holding a spent bullet in his hand as
proof of the deteriorating situation.
They know they have to lie down.
In an attempt to counter the mounting gang activity, South Africas police
launched an illegal mining task force in
September.
Still, the police are unable to tackle
the problem directly, fearful of operating in the unfamiliar mines.
Due to the informal nature of the
trenches used by illegal miners, it is
too dangerous for the law enforcement
agencies to go underground, admitted
police spokesman Dlamini Lungelo.
Gangs kidnap people underground
and use them as their workforce, said
Sandile Nombeni, who works with
non-prot Ekurhuleni Environmental
Organisation.
Gangs take a cut for every 12kg bag
of ground mined, signicantly reducing a miners personal share.
You need to provide them with a
full plate of soil, said an illegal miner
from Zimbabwe, speaking anonymously for fear of reprisal. If you
dont do that, they can kill you.
Some of the zama zamas, a muscular, sweaty group composed mainly of
young men from Zimbabwe and Mozambique, extract the yellow nuggets
in a makeshift factory in Springs.
Its hard, noisy work: the illegal
miners sift the dirt by rolling it in
drums lled with hard metal balls.
Illegal miners work an abandoned gold mine in Springs, South Africa.

One miner, called Reynold, told AFP
that a gang had recently killed his close
friend.
But I am determined to go back underground for another two months,
said Reynold, who lives in the small
shanty town of Randfontein, west of
Johannesburg.
If he survives, hell bring home 420
rand ($30) for every gram of gold he
discovers.
Since there is no work, this is how
many people get by, said Nombeni,
who is calling for the legalisation of
the informal mining sector, which the
Chamber of Mines of South Africa
estimates represents 5 to 10% of the

countrys annual gold production.
In Zimbabwe, there is no more illegal mining. They have formalised
small scale mining. And they dont
have any of the problems we are having, said David van Wyk, lead researcher at Bench Marks Foundation, a
non-prot organisation that monitors
corporate social responsibility.
If you look at the Netherlands you
have far less problems associated with
the sex trade there than you have in
countries where it is illegal. We need to
do something similar to that for small
scale mining.
Gulf Times
13
AMERICA
Republican campaigns seek more active role in debate planning
Reuters
Washington
epresentatives from Republican

presidential
campaigns on Sunday
demanded a more active role in
negotiations with TV networks
over how presidential debates
are conducted and sought a more
limited role for the Republican
National Committee.
Officials from 11 campaigns for

the 2016 Republican presidential
nomination met for two hours
behind closed doors at a hotel in
the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, to discuss
the way forward just days after a
heavily criticised debate hosted
by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado.
The campaigns are going to
take a more active role in discussing the format with the networks, said a senior official from
one campaign who attended the

meeting. Theyre going to expect to have a more direct engagement with the networks.
The negotiating role for the
three debates held so far has been
held by the Republican National
Committee. The official said the
campaigns want to limit the RNC
role to handling logistics like the
distribution of tickets and arranging backstage holding rooms for
the candidates at the event sites.
Campaigns were angered at

the RNC for its handling of the
CNBC debate because the event
was advertised to be a two-hour
discussion of economic issues
but veered wildly from that
theme and the moderators struggled to maintain control.
The format for the next debate
on Nov. 10 in Milwaukee to be hosted by Fox Business Network was left
alone for the most part. The other
ve debates going forward could
Ryan in a fog
over cigarette
stench in office
Reuters
Washington
isconsin Republican
Paul Ryan can add one
more burning issue to
his agenda as the new Speaker of
the US House of Representatives:
how to get rid of the stench of
cigarette smoke.
Ryan said on Sunday he has
been trying to come up with ways
to remove the smell of cigarettes
from the House Speakers office
that he took over on Thursday
after he replaced the retiring
John Boehner, a heavy smoker.
Asked if he is going to be able
to get the smell of smoke out of
the place, the tness-conscious
congressman said, Thats a really good question. And weve
been talking about that.
They have these ozone machines, apparently, that you can
detoxify the environment. But
Im going to have to work on the
carpeting in here, Ryan told the
NBC programme Meet the Press.
You know, if you ever go to
Reuters
Washington
Republican presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb

Bush speaks to supporters during a rally on his Jeb Can Fix It Tour
yesterday at the Tampa Garden Club in Tampa, Florida. Following
dropping poll numbers and poor debate performance Bush is trying
to reset his campaign that many say has been flailing.
Astronauts mark 15
years aboard the ISS
Reuters
Washington/Richmond
stronauts celebrated 15
years of circling the Earth
aboard the International
Space Station yesterday, a new
milestone for an orbiting space
lab that some say deserves the
Nobel Peace Prize.
With operations expected to
last another decade, the worlds
space agencies are now looking
to the outpost to provide key data
on how future space pioneers
may withstand the rigours of
venturing further, perhaps even
to Mars.
We do a lot of experiments
up here but I think the most important experiment is the space
station as an orbiting vehicle that
keeps humans alive in space for
long periods of time, said Nasa
astronaut Scott Kelly, during a
live press conference with the
stations crew to mark 15 years of
continuous habitation.
Along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, Kelly is
spending one year at the ISS so
scientists can study the effects
of long-term spaceight on the
body and mind.
Any trip to Mars would likely
last years, raising the issue of
harmful radiation. But it could
also help scientists understand
how to nourish astronauts for
long periods and how to maintain
healthy crew psychology.
The space station really is a
bridge, US astronaut Kjell Lindgren told the media conference.

It is a test bed for the technologies we need to develop and understand in order to have a successful trip to Mars.
The ISS was just a two-module
unit when the rst crew to inhabit the research laboratory project
arrived on November 2, 2000.
They were American astronaut
Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri
Gidzenko.
Since then, a rotating cast of
more than 220 of the worlds elite
astronauts have lived and worked
at the ISS, which includes 16 participating nations and is led by
the US and Russia.
Modules were added over time
and today the football-stadiumsized outt represents about
$100bn dollars in investment and
provides as much living space as
a six-bedroom house.
Traveling at an altitude of
about 250 miles (400km) and
a speed of about 17,500mph
(28,000 kph), the space station
circles the Earth once every 90
minutes.
Typically, six crew at a time
eat, sleep and oat around in
the microgravity environment,
working 35 hours per week on
a host of science projects for a
mission duration of about six
months.
After one crew of three astronauts departs, three replacements blast off aboard a Russian
Soyuz spaceship, now the only
campaigns said at the meeting

that they needed a better understanding up front of what the
host networks telecasts would
include because, as another campaign official said, there has been
a bad ow of information between the networks and the RNC
to date on what the candidates
should expect.
During the Alexandria discussions, this official said, the campaign representative for former
Florida Governor Jeb Bush

sought to reinstate Spanish-language network Telemundo to the
Feb. 26 debate. Telemundo and
National Review are co-sponsors
of that debate.
But the campaign of Donald
Trump refused to go along with
this demand, the official said.
Trump has campaigned on a
platform of building a wall along
the US-Mexican border to stem
illegal immigrants.
Bush reboots
oundering
presidential
campaign
like a hotel room or get a rental

car thats been smoked in? Thats
what this smells like, Ryan added.
To complicate things, Ryan
does not have a residence in
Washington and sleeps in his ofce.
Im just a normal guy, Ryan
told CNNs State of the Union
programme.
CNN interviewer Dana Bash,
with a laugh, then told him, Yes,
but normal guys dont sleep in
their offices.
Ryan said that he lives in
Janesville, Wisconsin, and commutes back and forth to Washington every week.
I just work here. I dont live
here. So I get up very early in the
morning. I work out. I work until
about 11:30 at night. I go to bed.
And I do the same thing the next
day, Ryan said.
It actually makes me more
efficient. I can actually get more
work done by sleeping on a cot in
my office. I have been doing it for
at least a decade, and Im going
to keep doing it.
Newly elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul

Ryan wields the speakers gavel for the first time on Capitol Hill in
Washington.
see some changes, the official said.

The RNC, aware of a rebellion brewing among the campaigns, had sought to defuse the
situation. The RNC dumped NBC
News, a partner of CNBC, from
hosting a Feb. 26 debate in Houston on Friday and on Sunday,
it announced it had appointed
its chief operating officer, Sean
Cairncross, to help negotiate debate terms with the networks.
But that wasnt enough. The
mode of transport to and from

the ISS after the US space shuttle
program was retired in 2011.
John Holdren, director of the
White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy, called
the 15th anniversary an incredible achievement, and said the
international partnership that
built and maintains the station
is a shining example, moreover,
of what humanity can accomplish when we work together in
peace.
In the past, Nasa administrator Charles Bolden has said the
project is worthy of the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Asked about that assertion,
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who also took part in yesterdays news conference, said
Bolden is 100% right.
People on the ground sometimes fail to hear each other, to
see each other. Here in space,
this is impossible, Kononenko
said through a translator.
Everyone is important here
and the success of the program
- and sometimes even life - depends on what each and every
one of us does.
The six crewmen currently
living in space planned to mark
the anniversary with a communal dinner and some reection,
said Japanese astronaut Kimiya
Yui.
We are going to have a meal
together, he said.
And also we would like to talk
about the future.
epublican
Jeb
Bush
launched a campaign reboot yesterday after weeks
of negative headlines to present
himself as a can-do conservative who will ght what he called
a new age of cynicism that has
seeped into the 2016 presidential
race.
Bushs bid for a political
comeback began in Tampa,
Florida, with a speech marking the start of a Jeb Can Fix
It Tour. At the same time, he
released an e-book that reveals
a more personal side to a candidate who has struggled on the
public stage.
His dismal performance at a
Republican presidential candidates debate last week in
Colorado was an added burden
to a candidate once considered
the favourite for the nomination to represent the party in
the November 2016 election.
Now, Bush suffers drooping opinion poll numbers and
fund-raising.
In his speech, Bush attempted
to resurrect his image as a joyful
warrior, presenting himself as a
positive force who implemented
conservative policies as two-
term governor of Florida from

1999-2007.
I will do everything in my
power to win this race, he said.
But there are some things I am
not willing to do: I will not compromise my principles. I will not
trade in an optimistic outlook to
put on the cloak of an angry agitator.
Without mentioning by
name the two Republican
front-runners, non-politicians
Donald Trump and Ben Carson,
Bush sought to raise doubts
about entrusting the reins of
government to someone who
has never demonstrated the capacity to implement conservative ideas.
And you cant just tell Congress, Youre red, and go to a
commercial break, Bush said,
referring to Trumps signature
line from his appearances on
NBCs reality TV show, The Apprentice.
Bush said, The choice we
face is whether to summon the
courage to give rise to an era of
new possibility or to indulge
this new age of cynicism.
He also appeared to acknowledge that he lacks the style of
some of his competitors, saying
he has resisted a lot of advice
lately on how to present himself.
Some advice is more strategic. Nail that zinger. Hide your

inner wonk, he said. One, I
cant be someone Im not. And
two, getting things done isnt
about yelling into a camera.
He will take the message to
South Carolina and then on
a three-day bus tour of New
Hampshire.
The tour coincides with the
release of a 730-page e-book,
entitled Reply All. It is a compilation of many of the e-mail
exchanges he had with Floridians while governor.
The e-mails cover everything
from his drive for tax cuts and
education reform in Florida
to immigration, his uency in
Spanish and dealing with hurricanes.
Beyond the work issues, there
was plenty of the comical, such
as when a nine-year-old girl
wrote to tell him she did not like
her piano lessons because my
teacher smells of dead alligators. She wanted to know if Jeb
and brother George had taken
piano while growing up.
Yes, I had piano lessons,
Bush e-mailed her. It was
tough and I didnt enjoy it. In
fact, I wasnt that good at it. But
you know what? It gave me discipline which helped me as an
adult.
Obama signs budget that averts default, shutdown

US President Barack Obama
signed into law yesterday a
two-year, more than $1tn-per-year
budget deal that averts a government shutdown and also increases
the governments debt limit.
The budget increases spending
by $80bn over the course of two
years - 50bn in 2016 and 30bn in
2017 - with the increases split be-
tween defence and non-defence

spending.
An increase in the debt ceiling
was also approved and was
designed to allow US borrowing
through March 2017.
Lawmakers had faced a deadline
to raise the debt ceiling next
week and a budget deadline of
December 11.
A group of leaders from both

chambers of Congress had hammered out the deal just before
outgoing Speaker of the House
John Boehner left Congress.
The move freed Paul Ryan of a
potentially damaging political
fight as he assumed the post
on Thursday but angered many
conservatives because it was
reached behind closed doors.

Republicans were not eager
to repeat the fight they picked
with Democrats in 2013 when
a showdown over the budget
resulted in a two-week shutdown
of government operations after
the two parties failed to reach an
agreement before the previous
spending deal expired.
Ex-senator, actor Thompson dies

Reuters
Nashville
red Thompson, a former

Republican US senator
from Tennessee who briefly ran for president and straddled the world of politics and
entertainment with a prolic
television and lm acting career,
died of cancer on Sunday at age
73.
Thompson, a onetime reallife federal prosecutor best
known to prime-time TV audiences for his role as a district attorney on NBCs hit show Law &
Order, died from a recurrence of
lymphoma, said Brent Leatherwood, executive director of the
Tennessee Republican Party.
The actor-politician, who
rst made a name for himself in
Washington as a Watergate investigator, was in hospice care
at the time of his death, Leatherwood said.
It is with a heavy heart and a
deep sense of grief that we share
the passing of our brother, husband, father, and grandfather,
who died peacefully in Nashville
Fred Thompson, the folksy former US senator from Tennessee, a

sometime talk show host and Hollywood actor, has died at age 73.
surrounded by his family, relatives said in a statement published by the Nashville Tennessean newspaper.
The tall, imposing Thompson
was elected to the Senate in 1994
and served for two terms before
retiring in 2003.
He announced his bid for the
Republican presidential nomination on NBCs The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno in September
2007 but dropped out of the race
in January after garnering little

support.
Born in Sheffield, Alabama,
Thompson earned a law degree
from Vanderbilt University, became a federal prosecutor and
went to work for longtime Tennessee Republican Senator
Howard Baker.
It was Baker who secured him
a job as minority legal counsel
for the special Senate Watergate
Committee investigating the
1972 burglary at the Democratic

Party headquarters in Washington.
Thompson has been credited
with helping Baker craft the famous question that framed the
panels inquiry - What did the
president know, and when did he
know it?
During a nationally televised
hearing in July 1973, Thompson
asked the question that led to
the public disclosure by White
House aide Alexander Buttereld of a secret Oval Office taperecording system.
The existence of the tapes
played a pivotal role in the investigation of the Watergate
cover-up and the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Moving between politics
and entertainment, Thompson
played supporting roles in numerous lms, including No Way
Out, The Hunt for Red October,
Days of Thunder, Die Hard 2 and
In the Line of Fire.
His most notable TV role was as
the no-nonsense New York D.A.
Arthur Branch in the long-running Law & Order series, in which
he appeared from 2002 to 2007.
14
Gulf Times
ASEAN
UN group seeks release

of Malaysias Anwar
AFP
Kuala Lumpur
Reuters
Bangkok
UN body has determined

that former Malaysian
opposition leader Anwar
Ibrahim has been jailed in violation of international law and
called for his immediate release,
according to a copy of the opinion released yesterday by his
family.
Anwar, 68, was jailed in February for ve years after being
convicted for sodomising a male
aide. He denies the charge, calling it a frame-up by Malaysias
long-ruling government to cripple a resurgent opposition.
The UN Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention concluded
that Anwar was denied a fair
trial and that the charges were
pursued for political reasons,
according to the document released by the family.
The Working Group considers that the adequate remedy
would be to release Ibrahim immediately, and ensure that his
political rights that were removed based on his arbitrary
detention be reinstated, said the
opinion dated September 15.
The group said it would refer
its ndings to the Special Rapporteur on torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment for appropriate action.
Anwars lawyer Sivarasa Rasiah said he does not expect Anwar
to be freed despite the pressure
from the UN.
Realistically, I dont think
the Malaysian government will
release him. But it must regard
this statement as a strong condemnation from the UN itself for
keeping Anwar in jail, he said.
Based on the UN ndings it is
illegal to have Anwar in prison.
Anwars family has complained that he is being held in a
lthy cell with only a thin foam
mattress despite chronic back
trouble, and has been denied
adequate medical care for a host
of ailments include erratic blood
pressure and a shoulder prob-
hai soldiers warned the

daughter of an assassinated dissident commander yesterday not to do
anything to disturb the country after she staged a symbolic protest in support of
ousted former prime minister
Yingluck Shinawatra.
The army seized power
in a coup in 2014, toppling
Yinglucks government in another convulsion in a decade
of confrontation between the
establishment and Yinglucks
brother, former telecoms tycoon and ousted populist premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
They wanted to meet

me over comments I
posted and told me not
to do anything to
disturb the country
Members of Malaysian opposition hold placards reading Release Anwar immediately!, after a press conference at Parliament House in Kuala
Lumpur yesterday.
lem. Anwar is in terrible pain.
He is physically weak, especially
his shoulders and is on pain killers, his wife and opposition
leader Wan Azizah Wan Ismail,
62, said, adding that the UNs
call was reassuring.
He looks miserable and his
prison conditions are harsh.
There are cockroaches in his
cell and Anwar has been bitten
by this pest, she said, speaking
outside parliament.
Earlier his daughter and member of parliament, Nurul Izzah

Anwar, urged the government to
comply with the UN recommendation.
Its strong stance in solidarity
with my father sends a clear and
unequivocal message to Prime
Minister Najib Razak, and ensures that the sharp decline in
human rights under his administration will not go unnoticed,
she said.
A government spokesman said

they would not comment at this
stage.
The UN working group is a
ve-member body currently
made up of experts from Australia, Benin, Mexico, South Korea and Ukraine.
The case is the second disputed conviction for Anwar, a
former deputy prime minister
who was ousted from the ruling party in a late 1990s power
struggle and jailed on sodomy

and corruption charges widely
viewed as politically motivated.
After his release in 2004, he
helped unite Malaysias previously divided opposition into a
formidable alliance.
The latest conviction has been
criticised by the US, which said
it raised questions over rule of
law in Malaysia, as well as other
nations and international human rights groups.
Myanmar election hate speech criticised

AFP
Yangon
Thailand military
sees red over
critical comments
by dissident
N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

hit out yesterday at extreme elements in Myanmar who are sowing hate speech and bigotry towards religious minorities, days before the country
votes in landmark elections.
Myanmar heads to the polls next Sunday in what observers are hoping will be
the fairest election for decades as the nation slowly shakes off almost a half-century of brutal military rule.
But the vote is taking place against a
rising tide of anti-Muslim sentiment,
spear-headed by a small but increasingly
inuential movement of hardline Bud-
dhist nationalist monks. In a statement

put out by his office, Ban Ki-moon said he
had deep concern about the continuous resort to hate speech, the incitement
of communal animosities and the abuse of
religion for political purposes resorted to
by extreme elements among the majority
community in Myanmar.
Ban also called on voters to reject
politicians who espoused discriminatory policies when they went to the ballot box.
He urges all concerned in Myanmar
to eschew any kind of pressure, intimidation, dissemination of hatred or
violence against individuals or organisations based on their ethnic identity,
gender, religious persuasion or political
views, the statement said.
The UN chief did not name any person or group in his remarks. However he
did hit out at vulgar remarks directed
against Yanghee Lee, the UNs special
rapporteur for Myanmar.
During a visit to the country in January she was rounded upon by influential
firebrand monk Wirathu.
It was not clear from Bans statement
whether he was referring to that specific
event.
Lee has been vocal in her criticism of
those who persecute and sow sectarian
animosity towards Myanmars minorities, particularly its Muslim population.
In recent years a nascent Buddhist
nationalist movement has sprung up,
throwing its weight behind the ruling
USDP party.
The so-called Ma Ba Tha movement

and Wirathu are the best known among
these groups, espousing virulently antiMuslim sentiment.
At the core of their ideology is the belief that Myanmars Buddhist identity
is under attack from Muslims and other
ethnic minorities, despite the country
hosting such groups for generations.
Dozens of people, mainly Muslim,
have died in religious violence over the
last few years.
The USDP has aligned itself with this
conservative view, agreeing to pass a
series of controversial race and religion
laws earlier this year.
As a result, the Buddhist nationalists
have made it clear the incumbent government is their favourite choice.
The military government

has banned gatherings and put
controls on the media while
Thaksin remains abroad to
avoid a graft conviction he says
was politically motivated and
Yingluck faces her own corruption charges that she too
denies.
Khattiyah
Sawasdipol,
daughter of a prominent proThaksin military commander,
posted a picture of herself on
Sunday wearing a red shirt, the
colour Thaksin and his supporters adopted to set themselves apart from the yellow
of their royalist, pro-military
establishment rivals.
She also posted comments
critical of junta leader Prime
Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha,
prompting the warning.
They wanted to meet me

over comments I posted and
told me not to do anything to
disturb the country, Khattiyah told Reuters.
I said I am a politician and
if I see something wrong I need
to speak. Junta spokesman
Colonel Winthai Suvaree declined to comment.
A sniper shot dead Khattiyahs father, Major-General
Khattiya Sawasdipol, on a
Bangkok street while he was
overseeing a protest by Thaksins supporters against the
then pro-establishment government in May, 2010. No one
has been charged with his killing.
Thaksin has been keeping
a low prole, and has told his
supporters to bide their time,
since last years coup but on
Sunday he also posted a picture of himself wearing red.
I, like the red shirts, want
to see the return of justice and
democracy, Thaksin said on
Instagram.
Whoever wants to win the
heart of red-shirted people
can do it easily. You dont have
to use a gun ... Just use a kind
heart, he said.
Any call by Thaksin to his
disgruntled supporters to confront the military would ramp
up tension at a time the country is apprehensive about the
health of ailing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. There is no
sign Thaksin has any intention
of doing that but the military is
wary, an analyst said.
Thaksins message hit a
chord of the reality which is
there has been no attempt to
address the grievances of the red
shirt movement since the coup,
said Sunai Phasuk, researcher at
Human Rights Watch.
Eight suspected
militants arrested in
anti-terror sweep
DPA
Kuala Lumpur
ight suspected militants

have been arrested in an
anti-terrorism sweep in
several states on the Malaysian
peninsula, the countrys police
chief said yesterday.
The suspects, aged between
22 and 36, were arrested Friday
in separate raids in the states of
Selangor, Perak and Johor, police Inspector General Khalid
Abu Bakar said in a statement.
Khalid said six of the suspects are believed to be members of a local
Al Qaeda terrorist cell while
the two others are believed to
have links with Islamic State

militants.
He added two of the suspects are government employees and responsible for spreading militant ideology inside the
bureaucracy. Malaysian police
have arrested over 100 suspected militants, including several members of the countrys
armed forces, since early last
year and more than 30 of them
have been charged in court, according to the police.
Late last month, a Malaysian
court sentenced to three years
imprisonment a 55-year-old
mother for supporting IS militants, by spreading the terrorist groups activities on her
Facebook page.
AVIATION
Malaysia spends
$53.95mn on
MH370 search
Malaysia has spent 231.45mn ringgit
($53.95mn) so far on the search for
flight MH370, which disappeared
more than a year ago, a senior
official said yesterday. Transport
Minister Liow Tiong Lai told the parliament that the amount was calculated at the end of October. He said
the full cost of the search which
also involves Australia and China
was not known. Beijing-bound
flight MH370 disappeared on March
8, 2014 after it took off from Kuala
Lumpur. Liow also told the parliament that Malaysia Airlines has so
far paid partial compensation to 74
relatives of people aboard MH370
as well as 236 relatives of passengers on flight MH17, which crashed
in eastern Ukraine in July last year
after it was shot down by a missile.
The total amount paid to the next of
kin in the two incidents amounted
to 71.27mn ringgit, he added. Liow
said the amount of compensation
to be paid to the next of kin was
based on the Montreal Convention 1999, which establishes airline
liability in the case of death, injury
or delay to passengers or in cases
of delay, damage or loss of baggage
and cargo.
Rare Sumatran rhino arrives in Indonesia

AFP
Jakarta
rare, US-born Sumatran

rhino arrived yesterday
at his new home in Indonesia, an official said, where its
hoped he will nd a mate and
give his critically endangered
species a shot at survival.
Harapan, an eight-yearold male whose name means
Hope, arrived at a specialist
rhino sanctuary on Sumatra island at dawn after a long journey from a zoo in Cincinnati.
A senior biodiversity conservation official in Indonesias
forestry ministry said the rhino
was adapting well after travelling 36 hours by air, sea and
land to reach to the national
park.
He is healthy and has a great
appetite, Bambang Dahono
Adji said.
We noticed this morning he
was lapping up all the leaves.
Being Sumatran, perhaps he
preferred local fare, like rice in-
File photo courtesy of the Cincinnati Zoo shows male Sumatran rhino Harapan in his crate upon arrival
in Sumatra.
stead of cheese, he joked.
Sumatran rhinos are among
the rarest in the world, with just
100 believed to still exist.
Harapan was the last remaining rhino of his kind in the US,
but without a mate there it was

decided he should return to Sumatra to have a chance at producing offspring.
His older brother, Andalas,
also moved from a zoo in Los
Angeles to the Sumatran Rhino

Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park in 2007.
Since then, hes fathered a
calf at the park, with a second
offspring expected in May.
Harapan will be quarantined

for just over two weeks before
entering the sanctuary, Adji
said, where its hoped he will
follow in his older brothers
footsteps and mate with one of
three female rhinos there.
Like his brother, we hope he
will be able to breed and boost
the Sumatran rhino population
here, Adji said.
Rhino experts welcomed
news of Harapans return to his
ancestral homeland, especially
given the desperation in recent years as the species future
looked bleaker than ever.
With few alternative options, the Cincinnati Zoo took
the controversial step in 2013
of trying to mate Harapan with
his older sister Suci. The female
died the following year in yet
another blow for conservationists trying to save the species.
Its good news that hes
(Harapan) here in Indonesia to
mate with unrelated females,
said Widodo Ramono, head of
the Rhino Conservation Foundation of Indonesia.
Inbreeding would cause

genetic degeneration, which
brings problems such as illnesses and defects.
Another forestry ministry ofcial Andhika Respati said Harapans transition out of captivity would come with challenges,
though a vet and two keepers
from Cincinatti accompanied
the rhino to offer advice to his
new carers.
One challenge is how to get
him used to life and nding food
in the forest, as he had been living in the zoo from birth, Respati said.
However we think he will
adjust just ne.
Sumatran rhinos are the
only Asian rhinoceroses with
two horns. They are covered in
woolly hair that ranges from
reddish brown to black in colour.
While Javan rhinos are considered the worlds rarest rhinos, Sumatran rhinos are under
increasing threat by poachers
and continue to lose precious
forest habitat.
Gulf Times
15
AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA
Australia ditches out-of-date knights and dames

AFP
Sydney
ustralia has removed

knights and dames from
the national honours system, Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull said yesterday, dismissing the ancient titles as not appropriate in the modern age.
Knights and dames were unexpectedly revived last year by
then-prime minister and ardent monarchist Tony Abbott
prompting accusations he was
in a time warp and out of touch
with voters.
Turnbull, an outspoken republican, had been widely expected
Defence
chiefs
warn
N Korea
AFP
Seoul
S Defence Secretary Ashton Carter and his South

Korean counterpart have
vowed zero tolerance for any
North Korean provocations and
agreed to strengthen combined
defences against the myriad
threats posed by Pyongyang.
Carter met Han Min-Koo in
Seoul during an annual security
meeting for the two allies to assess their military co-operation.
Carter told reporters that they
spoke candidly about nuclear
weapons, ballistic missiles, cyber- and conventional military
threats from North Korea, which
they described as a risk to peace
and security well beyond the Korean peninsula.
The minister and the secretary reaffirmed that any North
Korean aggression or military
provocation is not to be tolerated, according to a joint statement after their talks.
They
specically
voiced
grave concern over strong
hints from North Korea that it
is preparing a long-range rocket
launch in violation of US resolutions.
In a widely expected move, the
defence chiefs signed an agreement that denes conditions
for a transfer of control over the
South Korean military from the
United States to Seoul in time of
war.
South Korea had been scheduled to take war-time control,
known as OPCON, by next year.
However, now the transfer is
based on various conditions being met and not on a particular
timeline.
North Koreas hostile rhetoric,
rocket tests and unpredictable
behaviour in recent years has
prompted calls to postpone the
transfer.
The two nations agreed in
principle last year to this conditions-based approach.
Carter said that the main conditions Seoul must meet are the
further development of its intelligence capabilities and its counter-artillery powers.
If we look at global trends in
terms of national security, many
countries in the world conduct
self-defence in the form of cooperation with regional and local
partners, Han said when asked
why South Korea despite its
major economic and political
clout still was not ready to take
control of its own military.
The defence chiefs also agreed
to strengthen their capacity to
deal with cyber-attacks.
South Korea, one of the
worlds most wired nations, has
blamed North Korean hackers for a series of cyber-attacks
on military institutions, banks,
government agencies, TV broadcasters and media websites in recent years.
We see the North Korean
military challenge as continuing to evolve and becoming more
complex and more challenging,
a senior US defence official said
after the meeting, speaking on
condition of anonymity. Kim
Jung-Uns regime has demonstrated a willingness to act provocatively, to use violence, to use
force in ways that threaten the
stability of the region.
After the meeting in Seoul,
Carter left for an Association
of Southeast Asian Nations defence ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
to dump the titles ever since he

replaced Abbott in a conservative Liberal Party internal coup in
September.
The cabinet recently considered the Order of Australia ... and
agreed that knights and dames
are not appropriate in our modern honours system, Turnbull
said in a statement.
The prime minister said Britains Queen Elizabeth II had
agreed to the governments recommendation to remove knights
and dames from the Order of
Australia, which recognises
achievement and service.
This change will not affect
existing knights and dames, he
added.
Speaking later to reporters in

Sydney, Turnbull said the matter
was a long way from being the
most important issue in Australia
today.
But he added: This reects
modern Australia; knights and
dames are titles that are really anachronistic, theyre out of
date, theyre not appropriate in
2015 in Australia.
Abbotts reintroduction of
knights and dames in 2014 was
questioned, but it was his subsequent decision to knight Queen
Elizabeths husband Prince Philip
which was met with ridicule and
disbelief.
Republicans, who favour cutting Australias ties to the British
monarchy, had already accused

Abbott of turning the clock back
to a colonial mindset, while the
Labor opposition said the titles
should never have been brought
back.
It was a farce, a joke, a national disgrace, Labor MP Chris
Bowen told reporters in Sydney.
It is not appropriate in modern day Australia ... that we are
clinging onto imperial Britain
through our honours system, and
we shouldnt be celebrating the
fact that knights and dames are
gone, we should be lamenting the
fact that they came back under
this government.
Australia has long wrestled
with the idea of cutting ties to
the British monarchy, but a 1999

referendum on the issue kept the
traditional model under which
Britains Elizabeth II is head of
state.
Support for a republic has
ebbed in the years since, with a
Fairfax-Nielsen poll in 2014 nding that 51% of the 1,400 people
surveyed favoured the status quo
while only 42% supported a republic.
The Australian Monarchist
League said that it was disappointed and concerned by yesterdays development, accusing
Turnbull of republicanism by
stealth.
Mr Turnbull is trying to bring
on a republic and this is a way of
starting it all off, the leagues

national chair Philip Benwell told
AFP. We dont forget that Mr
Turnbull led republicans into the
last referendum.
But Australian Republican
Movement chair Peter FitzSimons welcomed the demise of
knights and dames, saying that
their reintroduction reected
Australia of the past, not the
diverse and multicultural nation
that exists today.
The misstep over Prince
Philips knighthood was seen as
one of the catalysts for a leadership challenge against Abbott
in February, adding to agging
opinion polls and an unpopular
budget.
The then-prime minister survived the rst challenge after

awarding the honour to the nonresident duke, dubbed a knightmare by the media, but was removed by Turnbulls challenge
seven months later.
He has since admitted the decision was a mistake, describing
it as an injudicious appointment, obviously.
Knights and dames were introduced into Australias system of
honours in 1976 by then-prime
minister Malcolm Fraser, but
abolished a decade later by Bob
Hawke.
Previously, Australians had
been honoured through British
imperial awards.
South Korea and Japan

end diplomatic freeze
AFP/Reuters
Seoul
he leaders of South Korea

and Japan broke an extended diplomatic freeze
yesterday with a rare summit at
which they agreed to push for
swift resolution of historical
disputes that have tainted ties
for decades.
In particular, South Korean
President Park Geun-Hye and
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe said that they would step up
efforts to settle the thorny issue
of so-called Korean comfort
women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during
World War II.
It was their rst ever one-onone meeting.
Park previously rebuffed all
summit proposals, arguing that
Tokyo had yet to properly atone
for its war-time past and 191045 colonial rule over the Korean
peninsula.
While it was never likely to
mend all the many broken fences
between the two neighbours, the
summit was seen as an important step towards a more pragmatic partnership less encumbered by decades of rancour and
bitterness.
Park began the meeting by
stressing the need to heal the
wounds of the past and the
presidential Blue House said
their talks did not shy away from
tough issues.
The two leaders agreed to
speed up consultations to try

to resolve the comfort women
question as quickly as possible,
the Blue House said, adding that
Park had referred to the issue as
the biggest stumbling block to
friendly relations.
While Abe offered no new
apology for Japans war-time
past, he told reporters afterwards that both sides had an obligation to not leave obstacles
for future generations.
Japan maintains that the comfort women issue was settled in
a 1965 normalisation agreement,
which saw Tokyo make a total
payment of $800mn in grants or
loans to its former colony.
The summit capped a series of moves in recent weeks
prompted and pushed by their
mutual military ally the United
States to normalise relations.
Park met Abe as he arrived
at the Blue House and the two
smiled as they shook hands before the talks began.
It was a contrast to previous
meetings between the two at
multilateral events which had
been studies in unsmiling, stony
indifference, especially on Parks
part.
Since taking office in February
2013, Park has taken a particularly strong line on the issue of
compensation for Korean comfort women.
It has been a politically popular stance in South Korea where
Abe remains extremely unpopular, amid suspicions that
he wants to water down Tokyos
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) with South Korean

President Park Geun-Hye (right) and their aides during their
meeting at the presidential house in Seoul.
past apologies for its war-time
aggression.
But there has also been public
support for a summit given the
importance of the relationship
between the two US military allies, who have strong trade links
and a mutual interest in curbing
the nuclear weapons ambitions
of North Korea.
During the summit, both
leaders reaffirmed their commitment to co-operating on the
North Korean nuclear issue.
Their meeting was only conrmed days before amid reports
of behind-the-scenes bickering
over how Japans war-time sex
All blue
slavery might be addressed.

Remember, this is the rst
summit between the two countries in nearly four years, so expectations need to be kept in
check, said Hong Hyun-Ik, an
analyst at the Sejong Institute
think-tank in Seoul.
Whats important is creating
a normal channel for dialogue to
pave the way for more workinglevel discussions and coordination, Hong said.
The two leaders took part on
Sunday in a trilateral summit
with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang the rst meeting of its
kind in more than three years.
China, France seek

ve-year reviews
of UN climate deal
Reuters/AFP
Beijing
C
Beluga whales kiss their trainers during a performance on Sunday at an aquarium in Harbin,
Heilongjiang province, China.
Net immigration hits record high in New Zealand

New Zealand saw record immigration in the
year to the end of June, with China and India
the largest source of migrants, according to
government figures.
Net immigration reached 58,300 people, as
lower numbers of New Zealanders moved
overseas, and more immigrants arrived,
according to the Migration Trends and Outlook
report released yesterday.
The number of New Zealanders moving to
Australia dropped from 43,600 in the 2012-2013
year to 21,800 in the 12 months to the end of
June this year.
The country saw a net gain of 63,900 non-New
Zealand citizens during the period.
Numbers were up for tourist visas and the three
main types of work visas.
India was the largest source of migrants entering
In a joint statement, the leaders vowed to work together again

on improving trade and security
between the three largest economies in Northeast Asia.
The statement stressed the
importance of facing history
squarely but qualied that reference to old disputes by also
underlining the necessity of
advancing towards the future.
A
Japanese
government
spokesman said that Abe also
told Park that he wanted co-operation between the two countries and the United States in
maintaining an open and peaceful South China Sea.
Abe has in the past been critical of Chinas assertiveness in
the South China Sea, through
which much of Japan and South
Koreas trade and energy supplies pass.
He said Japan would like to
co-operate with South Korea
and the United States at various
occasions to preserve the open,
free and peaceful sea, Deputy
Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi
Hagiuda told reporters.
Hagiuda did not elaborate,
but on Friday, Japanese Defence
Minister Gen Nakatani reiterated that Tokyo had no plan to
take part in US-led freedom of
navigation patrols in the South
China Sea.
A US warship sailed within 12
nautical miles of one of Chinas
man-made islands in the area
last Tuesday in the most signicant US challenge yet to territorial limits China claims around
under the skilled migrant category (21%)

followed by the Philippines (13%) and the UK
(11%). China was the largest source of familysponsored migrants.
The number of resident visas was down by just
2% year-on-year, but was still at 43,085.
The largest source of permanent migrants to
New Zealand was China (17%), followed by India
(16%) and the UK (11%).
Almost half of new arrivals went to Auckland
with a net 26,800 people moving to the
countrys largest city.
New measures designed to encourage migrants
to move to regions outside Auckland came into
effect on November 1, with applicants in the
skilled migrant category earning more points
if they have a job offer in another part of the
country.
hina and France have

agreed to push for longterm monitoring of a
UN accord to combat climate
change due in Paris next month
by reviewing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions every ve
years.
Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed the timetable with
summit host French President
Francois Hollande, who is visiting China, as part of a joint
plan to put the world economy
onto a low-carbon path in the
course of this century.
Top greenhouse gas emitter
China agreed with France to
stock-taking every ve years
and in a comprehensive manner of overall progress made
towards reaching the agreed
long-term goals in Paris.
The most important kernel
... has both parties committing to taking stock every ve
years, said Jennifer Morgan, of
the US-based World Resources
Institute think-tank.
She said Beijing had not previously spelt out its hopes for
monitoring any deal in Paris.
The European Union has argued strongly for reviews of
every national plan every ve
years.
More than 150 nations have

issued national plans for curbing greenhouse gas emissions
until 2025 or 2030 in the runup to the summit. But a draft
text of the Paris deal is unclear
about how the pledges will be
tracked.
We are in a fully optimistic mood as to the success of
the Paris conference, Xi told
a joint news conference with
Hollande.
Hollande said the statement
was a major step towards an
agreement in Paris, where China was necessary, indispensable for success.
With this declaration, we
have set up conditions which
open the way to success and I
am minded to believe that an
agreement is now possible, he
told reporters. The conditions
were laid in Beijing today, it will
be said. This visit is historic.
And I am weighing my words.
Their joint accord also foresees talks in 2017-18 to review
progress and ways to enhance
action before 2020.
Jean-Francois Julliard, of
Greenpeace France, said Xi and
Hollandes accord fell far short
of the environmental groups
hopes for a shift to 100% renewable energies from fossil
fuels by 2050.
This is no time for champagne, he said in a statement.
the Spratly archipelago.

The voyage triggered an angry
rebuke from China and a warning that a minor incident in the
area, one of the worlds busiest
sea lanes, could spark war if the
United States did not stop what
it called provocative acts.
China claims most of the energy-rich South China Sea.
The Philippines, Vietnam,
Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei
have overlapping claims.
Japan has long been mired in
a territorial dispute with China
over a group of tiny, uninhabited
islands in the East China Sea.
Abe told Park that the situation in the South China Sea was
a common cause of concern for
international society, Hagiuda
told reporters.
The website of Chinas official
Peoples Daily showed yesterday
pictures of advanced ghter jets
from the naval aviation division of the South China Sea
eet carrying out drills.
It did not say where or when
they had happened.
Asked about Abes remarks,
Chinese
foreign
ministry
spokeswoman Hua Chunying
said that recently some people
had expressed concerns about
the South China Sea, but she did
not know why they were worried
as there were no problems with
freedom of navigation.
We hope the relevant countries can all view the present
issue objectively, fairly and rationally, she told a daily news
brieng.
Chinas one-child
policy stays in
effect for now
China must continue to enforce
its one-child policy until new
rules allowing all couples to have
two children go into effect, the
top family planning body said.
The ruling Communist Party
said last week that Beijing would
loosen its decades-old one-child
policy.
But the plan for the change must
be approved by the rubber-stamp
parliament during its annual
session in March.
The online statement by the
National Health and Family
Planning Commission contradicts
a remark by a family planning
official in the southern province
of Hunan, who said last week that
couples currently pregnant with a
second child will not be punished,
according to the Hunan Daily
newspaper.
Ahead of (ratification), all
localities and departments
must seriously implement the
population and family planning
laws and regulations currently in
effect, maintain good order for
births and must not act of their
own accord, an unnamed official
with the commission said in the
statement.
About 90mn families may
qualify for the new two-child
policy, which would help raise
the population to an estimated
1.45bn by 2030, the planning
commission has said. China, the
worlds most populous nation,
had 1.37bn people at the end of
last year.
For decades, Chinese authorities
harshly implemented the onechild policy, leading to forced
abortions and infanticides across
the country.
16
Gulf Times
BRITAIN
PROTEST
Members of the Fire Brigade Union play

bagpipes during a protest outside the Houses of
Parliament in central London yesterday.
PROPOSAL
SCHEME
DEAL
MEDICAL
Cameron bids to speed

up adoption process
Store offers furniture

to blaze-hit residents
Private jet to Paris for

just 365 one-way
Malaria pill to be
tested on cancer
The adoption process will be speeded up

to end the tragedy of children waiting
for long periods to be placed with a new
family, David Cameron has announced. The
prime minister wants to double the number
of children - currently around 10% - being
placed with adoptive families before legal
proceedings have been completed. Cameron
said that although progress had been made
on the issue he wanted to see further action.
It is a tragedy that there are still too many
children waiting to be placed with a loving
family - we have made real progress but it
remains a problem, he said.
A store is offering furniture to victims of a

devastating fire in Hampstead while they
rebuild their lives. BoConcept, a Danish
furniture chain, will lend esse ntial pieces to
those forced out of their homes at the fourstorey Finchley Road block, which fire ripped
through last week. Residents lost most of
their possession and the London Fire Brigade
is investigating the cause of the blaze. The
fire led to the dramatic rooftop rescue
of trader John Morales and his pregnant
wife Mai. The blaze was attended by 70
firefighters and 10 engines, with 25 people
rescued from the flats at about 6.30am.
A new airline is offering travellers a one-way

trip from London to Paris aboard a luxury
private jet for 365. Le Jet founder Christophe
Ducluzeau came up with the idea when he
needed a private jet from Paris to Nice during
an air strike, which cost him 7,000. He split the
sum with his colleagues, making the trip more
economical and the idea for Le Jet was born.
In comparison, last-minute business premier
tickets on Eurostar can cost 275 each way and
business-class flights on British Airways about
350. Ducluzeau said: Travel by private jet was
once only for the super-rich but Le Jet plans to
open this market to a whole new audience.
An anti-malaria drug that costs 70p a day is to be

given to cancer patients in one of the UKs first
crowdfunded drug trials. Doctors at St Georges
Hospital in Tooting have secured 50,000 to see
if promising results from a small study can be
repeated in a larger trial involving 140 patients.
More than 270 people, including patients, support
groups and many backers unknown to the
team, pledged cash to allow them to continue
to investigate the benefits of repurposing
the malaria drug Artesunate as a treatment for
colorectal cancer. Doctors said donations poured
in from across the world when they used social
media to promote the appeal.
Woman
thrown
into canal
may have
been alive
Fog causes
travel chaos
as ights
cancelled
Agencies
London
young woman might still

have been alive when she
was stuffed into a suitcase
and thrown into a city canal, a
court heard.
The body of Marta Ligman, 23,
was found in the case oating in
the Grand Union Canal in Little
Venice in north west London, 10
days after it had been dumped.
Prosecutor Tim Cray said the
victim, a delicatessen shop assistant, had been badly beaten.
She suffered bruising all over
her body and broken ribs and was
either dead or dying by the time
she was dumped in the water.
He said: Those injuries are
consistent with her having been
attacked and badly beaten. If the
initial attack had not killed her
outright, the fact that she was
then zipped into a suitcase and left
inside would also have proved fatal
because of the effects of being left
in such a constricted space.
Her boyfriend Tomasz Kocik,
a Polish national, of Buckingham
Road, Harlesden, is on trial at the
Old Bailey accused of her murder
between April 28 and May 10 this
year.
On Friday May 1, Kocik, 38, was
caught on CCTV dragging a large
dark suitcase half a mile from his
home to the canal towpath early
in the morning before returning
home with wet trousers over an
hour later, jurors were told.
The trunk was extremely
heavy and he appeared to be
struggling to move it as he made his
way through the streets of North
West London, the court heard.
Some 24 hours after the discovery of her body, police identied her as being the girlfriend of
Kocik.
The couple had met online in
a dating chatroom while Ligman
was living with her family in Poland. She travelled to London to
live with the defendant in 2012 but
by the time of her death, the relationship had soured.
Cray told jurors that Ligmans
colleagues described Kocik as an
obsessively jealous controlling
boyfriend who was violent towards her.
London Evening Standard

London
City workers cross the Millennium footbridge over the River Thames towards St Pauls Cathedral on a
misty morning in London yesterday.
Heartbroken mum ghts

son to stay in her home
London
mother aged 80 yesterday

said she was heartbroken
as she launched a bid to
stop the sale of her 1.2mn home
in a bitter legal battle with her
son.
Elizabeth Ashley has been
locked in a three-year dispute
with son Mitchim over the fourbedroom house in Wandsworth
where she has lived for almost 40
years.
She is the sole owner, according
to the property deeds, but a judge
has ruled her son is entitled to half
of the property because he had
paid more than half of the cost of
its purchase.
Ashley moved into her home
in 1976, when it was a council
house. She bought it in 2001 for
250,000 under the right-to-buy
scheme after her son agreed to
contribute 155,000.
But following a falling-out in-
volving his wife in 2012, Elizabeth

changed the locks to keep her son
out. He had lived there from the
age of 14.
Mitchim, 54, began legal action
and at Central London county
court last year. Judge Diana Faber
ruled his mother had unlawfully
excluded him from the property.
To resolve the dispute, the
judge considered dividing the
house, with Elizabeth living on
the ground oor and her son upstairs.
But Elizabeth said the breakdown of their relationship was so
irretrievable, such a move would
lead to trouble.
The judge said the only solution
was to force her to sell up and split
the prots with her son, an electrician who lives in Hastings with
his wife.
At a hearing on October 14, the
court ordered Ashley to put the
property on the market by this
month, with a buyer to be found
by February. She said she was
heartbroken, adding: Why
cant I stay in the house I have

lived in for the past 40 years?
I dont know what it will do to
me or whether Ill be able to cope
with living elsewhere.
It makes me so sad and angry that it has come to this and I
could be out of my home in a few
months. It would take beyond a
miracle for me to be able to buy it
off (my son).
Elizabeth is due to face him in
court again in January for a case
management hearing. She said
she had spent more than 27,000
on legal fees, and was looking for
a new legal team to persuade the
court to reverse its ruling and allow her to stay.
At the last hearing she was
forced to represent herself because her solicitor had died, she
said, unbeknown to her. She
added: Its not fair how this has
gone. Im hoping there is someone out there who can help me.
Im running out of time. Id
ask anyone who thinks they can
help me to get in touch.
housands of airline passengers were stranded

yesterday after 200 ights
in and out of London were cancelled or severely delayed by fog.
Travellers criticised the lack of
warning as not good enough as
10% of ights at Heathrow were
hit and London City airport was
brought to a standstill.
Airlines said they had attempted to contact passengers
on Sunday to warn them to stay
away but many, including families returning from half-term
breaks, were forced to endure
long waits.
Trading was muted in the City
as many executives struggled
to return. Its pretty quiet this
morning, but thats hardly surprising since half the City hasnt
got to their desks yet because of
the fog, said one trader.
City airport did not expect its
rst ight to depart until after
11am in what it said was one of
the worst weather- affected days
in recent memory. More than 50
inbound ights were cancelled
and others were delayed indenitely. An airport spokesman said
airlines had advised passengers to
stay away. Weve had a number
of cancellations, he added. The
fog is very much here.
Olympic champion cyclist Sir
Chris Hoy tweeted his anger at
the chaos at Heathrow as he
tried to catch a ight to Estoril,
Portugal. Its like Planes, Trains
& Automobiles today, he tweeted. Chaos at Heathrow, changed
ight, jumped in cab to Gatwick,
Diwali rush
People fill the road after the Diwali lights were switched on
in Leicester, Britain. The Diwali celebration in Leicester is
one of the largest in the world outside of India, with around
35,000 people attending the switch-on of the lights in the
heart of the citys Asian community.
not much better here.

At Heathrow, passengers complained about a lack of information and claimed long-haul
ights were jumping the queue
ahead of domestic connections.
Sky News presenter Eamonn
Holmes was stuck in Belfast, unable to make it back to London to
present the breakfast show because of the pea-souper conditions.
We should have been

alerted by a text it is not
good enough. Obviously
the weather is no ones fault
but more information is
needed
Nurse Barbara Lagoa, 23, travelled from Nottingham to Heathrow after working a night-shift
to catch an 8am ight to Lisbon
but was hit by delays.
They should have told us earlier that there may be a problem,
she said. We should have been
alerted by a text it is not good
enough. Obviously the weather is
no ones fault but more information is needed.
Daniel Finucane, 57, a software
engineer from Hampstead, who
was also travelling to Portugal,
said: Its been a bit of a nightmare but theres not a lot that
could be done. More information
would have been good though.
Namita Khanna, 42, ew in to
Heathrow from Delhi yesterday
morning to nd that her onward
ight to Dublin had been axed.
The businesswoman, who was
returning from a family holiday
with her son Jay, 13, said: There
should have been more information. This has been very tiring.
Yesterdays disruption came

after fog forced the cancellation
of 90 ights on Sunday. Peter Oljanuk, 52, was delayed for ve hours
awaiting a ight to Manchester after returning from New York.
My daughter goes back to
school today and shes absolutely
exhausted, he said. Its just
been a nightmare. I understand
you cant tell with fog and planes
but British Airways just seemed
to be insisting on getting longdistance ights and didnt seem
bothered about domestic ights.
Gavin Thurston, 53, a wildlife
photographer who has worked
with David Attenborough, was
stranded at Heathrow after an
AirKenya ight to Nairobi was
cancelled.
He said: We were supposed to
y at 7pm but by that time it was
reported 50 ights out of Heathrow had been cancelled.
BA ights from Heathrow to
Milan, Glasgow, Aberdeen and
Munich were axed. Long-haul
ights to Chicago and New York
were also hit. Heathrow normally handles about 1,300 ights
a day but the airport said one in
10 had to be cancelled as the fog
required there to be bigger gaps
between aircraft.
The Met Office said visibility
was reduced to 100m in places. It
warned of more fog today morning. There were a handful of
cancellations to BA and easyJet
ights at Gatwick. Stansted and
Luton reported some delays.
A girl of ve may have been
trapped beside her dead father for
some time after their Ford Fiesta
crashed into a tree in foggy conditions in Staffordshire, emergency
crews admitted yesterday.
Singer plans DNA

test to trace ancestry
AFP
London
and English ancestry and his father was of English descent.
When I was born, my

mother came out in big
dark patches all over her
body. They asked if she had
any black blood and she
said she didnt know
fter being told that he is

just passing as white,
Welsh crooner Tom Jones
says he is ready to take a DNA
test to nd out once and for all if
he has black ancestry.
The star, whose hits include
Its Not Unusual and Delilah is
often thought to have black heritage for his booming baritone
voice, tight curly hair and olive
complexion.
A lot of people still think
Im black. When I rst came to
America, people who had heard
me sing on the radio would be
surprised that I was white when
they saw me, Jones was quoted
as saying by the Times.
When I was born, my mother
came out in big dark patches all
over her body. They asked if she
had any black blood and she said
she didnt know. Im going to get
my DNA tested. I want to nd
out, he said.
His mother Freda was of Welsh
DNA tests claiming to track

ancestral lineage are now easily
accessible and affordable.
The tests cost 30 and 300
and are said to look at the ancestral lineages that contribute to
the make-up of an individuals
DNA.
The hip-swivelling singer has
enjoyed a long career as a sex
symbol but now bemoans feeling
objectied.
Born Thomas Jones Woodward
in South Wales to a coal-mining
family, the 75-year-old singer
discovered his musical talent as
a child, his career spanning more
than half a century with hundreds of records to his name.
He was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II in 2006.
Gulf Times
17
BRITAIN
Garden Bridge is saved by 11th-hour cash deal

London
ondons visionary Garden

Bridge has been saved in an
11th-hour deal that slashed
20mn from the cost to the capitals taxpayers.
Talks between Labour mayoral
candidate Sadiq Khan, Lambeth
council leader Lib Peck, Transport
for London (TfL) and the Garden

Bridge Trust reached a dramatic
breakthrough that will allow work
to start on schedule next year.
The key was a cut in funding
provided by TfL, from 30mn to
10mn. The other 20mn will be
loaned by TfL if needed, and ultimately funded by the private sector or future revenues.
It lifts a shadow from the 175mn
project a landscaped footbridge
Bikers accused
of putting lives
at risk in stunt
riding protest
London
ore than 200 masked

bikers on high-powered
motorcycles, mopeds
and quad bikes roared through
residential streets in London in
scenes likened to Mad Max.
Families told how they had to
dive for cover as members of the
convoy allegedly ran red lights,
mounted pavements and set off
reworks.
The eight-mile Halloween
Rideout from Lambeth to Bromley had been arranged on social
media by organisers who claim it
was a protest against the lack of
legal space for stunt riders.
But hundreds of people took to
the internet to complain, posting
videos of riders streaming through
busy south London streets on Saturday night.
Midori Cumming, 45, and her
sons Ross, ve, and Conor, seven, were out trick-or-treating in
Hither Green and ran for their
lives when the riders sped towards them on the pavement.
She said: We were standing
waiting to cross when they suddenly came round the corner on
the pavement.
They couldnt see us, we were
only ve metres away, and I just
pushed my sons back against a
shop front and they shot past us.
My sons could have been killed.
When we got home we were all
shaken up. It was terrifying and
the noise was deafening.
Her husband Andy Cumming,
a project manager for an IT rm,
said: When my wife and sons got
home they were in tears. These
people may think they can have
fun but theyve got to stick to the
rules of the road.
Later on after midnight, about
20 of them were driving at more
than 70mph on our street. They
were jumping off speed bumps and
going back on one wheel. It was
unbelievably dangerous. There
were reports the convoy splintered
off and social media was ooded
with sightings of groups in Bromley, Greenwich and Southwark

throughout the night. One tweet
said: Just had a Mad Max scene
going on down my street, hundreds of bikes and quad bikes going down the road (and the wrong
side).
Caitlin Mulford, 24, saw hundreds of bikes in Streatham High
Road at about 8.20pm. She said:
They were wearing masks and
driving the wrong way down the
road, driving on the pavements
and doing wheelies.
IT consultant Julia Evans, 42,
was on the 57 bus to her home in
Streatham Hill when she saw a
horde of riders speeding towards
her at around 10.30pm. She said:
I thought they were going to drive
straight at the bus, they were all
over the road. I think the bus driver
was scared.
Recruitment executive Chris
Dimelow, 22, saw two large groups
run red lights and mount the pavement in New Cross Road, Lewisham, at about 8pm. He said:
The sound was like thunder going down the road these people
were jumping red lights, cutting
up buses and started going up on
the pavement. It was quite surreal
to see. People were using the road
as a dual carriageway.
It is understood the majority
of those involved were stunt riders who regularly meet on industrial estates. It was organised by
UK Raise It Up, a Facebook group
that organises meets and rideouts, with bikers congregating at
around 5.30pm near Hilly Fields,
Lewisham.
Organisers claimed the ride was
arranged to show stunt riders have
nowhere to pursue their hobby legally. They said: What else can
you expect. There is not one place
we can ride or stunt legally. It will
only get worse. The time has come
to start a petition and we will take it
as far as possible to get it approved.
Police in Battersea said they
were investigating after receiving calls relating to large groups of
motorbikes and motorcycles riding anti-socially.
created by Olympic cauldron designer Thomas Heatherwick. It

will allow tourists and Londoners
to stroll over the Thames between
Westminster and Lambeth among
owerbeds, shrubs and trees.
Despite polls showing the idea is
popular with Londoners, concerns
over the scale of TfLs share had
become a major stumbling block
and Lambeth appeared ready to
pull the plug when it halted vital
rince Charles tomorrow

launches a potentially awkward tour Down Under,
where New Zealands premier is
pushing to drop the Union Jack
from the ag and Australias new
leader is a staunch republican.
Charles and wife Camilla arrive
in Wellington to start the 12-day
trip in which the heir to the throne
will visit a dozen different cities
and towns across the two countries including New Plymouth,
Dunedin, Auckland, Sydney, Perth
and Albany.
The princes office said the
tour had a strong emphasis on
honouring the military, with this
year marking the centenary of
the Anzac landings in Gallipoli,
Turkey, during World War I that
helped forge the identities of both
Australia and New Zealand.
New Zealand Prime Minister
John Key has also sparked a debate
on national symbols by calling a
referendum on changing the ag,
which features a Union Jack in the
corner.
Key argues it is time to ditch the

symbol of New Zealands colonial
past and later this month Kiwis
will begin voting in a postal ballot
to pick a potential alternative.
While Charles will likely avoid
any controversy on the subject,
he may take comfort from the fact
that opinion polls predict the existing ag will be retained when
the issue is put to a nal vote in
March. If Charles becomes king
in the future, as expected, he will
become monarch of both Australia
and New Zealand, which were
once part of the British empire but
are now independent.
The British crowns power in
Australia and New Zealand is seen
as largely symbolic, but while
Queen Elizabeth II is hugely popular in both countries the monarchy
is still viewed by some as a colonial
relic.
While Key may support changing the ag, he remains an ardent
monarchist, unlike Charles host
on the second leg of his tour, Australias new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
Turnbull, who recently ousted
royal supporter Tony Abbott in a
party coup, is a former head of the
pleased weve successfully agreed

a deal that will cut London taxpayers contribution towards the Garden Bridge by two thirds.
Khan, who discussed his concerns with Heatherwick at the
designers studios, swung behind
the project which he had previously branded a white elephant
provided that TfLs share of the
cost was slashed.
This is a much better deal
for Londoners, he said. Weve

been able to secure an agreement which will allow the Garden
Bridge to proceed while saving up
to 20mn of Londoners hardearned money. Boris Johnson was
wrong to commit 30mn of taxpayers money to this project.
Lord Mervyn Davies, chairman
of the Garden Bridge Trust, said:
We have been hugely successful
in our efforts to raise funds from
the private sector, with 85mn

pledged to date, and we have
agreed that any of the committed funds from TfL spent over the
10mn will be treated as a loan.
Boris Johnsons spokesman said
he was pleased Lambeth was ready
to go ahead. He said: The mayor
believes the bridge will be a fantastic addition to Londons skyline
and a driver of jobs and growth for
the capital.
Funeral for fallen police officer
The widow of police officer Dave Phillips, Jennifer, and their daughter Abigail leave after his funeral service at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, in Liverpool, yesterday.
Phillips was killed when he was struck by a car whilst on duty.
Millions lost as Chinese

online sellers dodge VAT
Guardian News and Media
London
he UK is expected to
lose tens of millions of
pounds in VAT avoidance
and evasion this Christmas as
a growing number of non-EU
sellers, including hundreds from
China, increasingly dominate
sales of popular gifts on Amazon
and eBay.
There has been a huge increase in this trade which is very
difficult to control, a senior Brussels source told the Guardian.
The system is so complicated its
open to abuse.
Customs officers are aware that
some overseas sellers are underdeclaring the value of goods
shipped to the UK and other Eu-
Charles Down Under tour

to begin amid ag debate
AFP
London
negotiations over the site of the

bridges southern shore.
Peck said: Im pleased that
Londoners are getting a better nancial deal particularly at a time
of austerity when all public sector organisations are being forced
to
make deep cuts to services.
Weve been in tough negotiations
with the Garden Bridge Trust and
Transport for London and Im
Australian Republican Movement

and campaigned passionately, but
unsuccessfully, to ditch the monarchy in a 1999 referendum on the
issue.
The republic will come back,
Turnbull vowed at the time.
Since becoming prime minister,
he has said that another republican referendum in Australia is
unlikely while the Queen is still on
the throne - meaning the next one
would likely be after Charles has
assumed the crown.
Turnbull yesterday showed his
republican res still burn when he
removed knights and dames from
the national honours system, saying such titles were not appropriate in modern times.
Other
republic-supporting
Australian prime ministers have
courted controversy by bending
protocol in meetings with the British monarchy, with Julia Gillard
criticised for failing to curtsy to the
Queen in Canberra in 2011.
Former leader Paul Keating was
dubbed the Lizard of Oz by the
British press when he touched the
Queens back while guiding her
through a crowd in the nations
capital in 1992.
ropean destinations in order to

qualify for VAT exemptions on
low-value packages.
Youre getting packages which
the (online) customer might have
paid 100 (70) for. And theyre
coming in (through customs)
identied as 20, or as gifts. And
thats the abuse, said the source,
who has close knowledge of the
subject. This deception benets
the seller because lower-value
goods - under 22 in most EU
member states and under 15 in
the UK - are exempt from VAT.
Growing numbers of businesses from China are using Chineserun warehouses in UK port cities
as staging posts, allowing them to
offer eBay and Amazon shoppers
rapid delivery as well as competitive prices.
In many instances sellers are
not disclosing VAT numbers in

their eBay and Amazon listings.
When asked by a customer for a
VAT receipt, several have simply
replied that they do not apply the
tax.
All overseas businesses selling
on eBay and Amazon must apply VAT on their UK sales from
the moment they start selling to
customers in Britain, regardless
of how low their turnover is in the
UK.
VAT can be avoided only if
items are sold from outside the
EU, are genuinely low-value and
are imported in small packages
already addressed to individual
consumers.
The Guardian has seen evidence of Chinese sellers on eBay
giving invalid VAT numbers as
well as sharing, or cloning, num-
Christmas lights turned on
bers belonging to other businesses. All of which suggests there

may be serious compliance failures or fraud.
Evidence was shown to eBay,
which said cases highlighted
by the Guardian would be discussed with HM Revenue &
Customs.
eBay reminds all its users of their need to comply with
their legal obligations and we
also provide helpful guidance
on VAT through our policies and
help pages , the company said.
If eBay sellers are found to be
breaching UK VAT compliance
rules, we will co-operate with
HMRC in all cases where HMRC
provides evidence of underpayment of taxes.
Amazon said sellers on its site
are independent businesses
Thomas Cook
criticism welcomed
Agencies
London
Australian singer Kylie Minogue waves as she turns on the

Christmas lights in Oxford Street, London yesterday.
responsible for complying with

their own VAT obligations. It
added: We dont have the authority to review their tax affairs.
Amazon argued that sellers
using its site are not required
to post their business details or
VAT numbers on amazon.co.uk.
Instead they can meet EU seller
disclosure rules by making the
information available in an email to customers, or in a paper
invoice delivered with goods
bought.
Brussels sources disagreed,
insisting EU rules required that
customers be informed of seller
details before making a purchase.
In practice, for sales via online
marketplaces, the information
must be provided on the website,
one source said.
he parents of two children who died from carbon monoxide poisoning on holiday in Corfu have
welcomed a review criticising
Thomas Cooks treatment of
the family following the deaths.
Bobby and Christi Shepherd,
aged six and seven, died at the
Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel
when they were overcome by
fumes from a faulty boiler during a holiday with their father
and stepmother in October
2006.
Sharon Wood and Neil Shepherd, the childrens parents, said
the report into Thomas Cooks
customer, health, safety, welfare
and crisis management was a
move in the right direction and
the next step in what has been a
long, hard ght for justice.
An inquest earlier this year
into the deaths of Bobby and
Christi, from Horbury, near
Wakeeld, found they had
been unlawfully killed and the
tour operator had breached
their duty of care.
The independent review, carried out by former Sainsburys

chief executive Justin King,
criticised the travel rms relationship with the family in the
nine years since the childrens
deaths and concluded that parts
of the business were putting nancial priorities ahead of customers needs.
It said: Individual prot
centres such as the airline and
destination management (divisions) have a tendency to protect cost rather than maximise
the customer experience.
King made 49 recommendations about health and safety,
carbon monoxide, quality assurance and contracting, destination management, customer
service and relations and incident management.
Thomas Cook, which described the review as uncomfortable reading, said it accepted the ndings and had already
taken action on a number of
recommendations. Wood and
Shepherd said they welcomed
Thomas Cooks new proactive
approach in addressing the mistakes they made that led to the
deaths of Christi and Bobby.
18
Gulf Times
EUROPE
Azeri ruling party wins majority, poll observers see shortcomings
Reuters
Baku
zerbaijans President, Ilham Aliyev, maintained

his grip on power in the
oil-producing nation after loyalists won most parliamentary
seats in an election on Sunday,
but the opposition cried foul and
observers saw shortcomings.
The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan
(New Azerbaijan) Party took 69
of the 125 seats in the singlechamber parliament, central
election authorities said, while

a host of small parties and independents also loyal to the government took most of the rest.
Aliyev has consolidated his
power in the former Soviet republic since taking over from his
father, Heydar, in 2003, beneting from revenues from rising oil
and gas exports which have delivered improved living standards.
But rights groups accuse the
government of curbing freedoms
of expression, while the opposition complains of harassment,
a lack of access to broadcasting,

and draconian restrictions on
campaigning.
A 28-member delegation from
the Council of Europes parliamentary assembly (PACE),
among about 2,000 foreign observers who monitored the poll,
said the election generally met
international standards although
some observers disagreed.
The voting process was observed to be adequate and generally in line with international
standards, the PACE mission
said in a statement.
Despite some shortcomings

the results expressed the will of
the people, it said.
However, it called on the Azeri
authorities to urgently improve
the situation on human rights
and to continue the democratic
development of the country after
the elections.
Three members of the mission, in a separate statement,
said however that they could not
regard these elections as a step
towards free, fair and democratic
elections.
According to preliminary es-
timates, Yeni Azerbaijan got 69

mandates, which allows us to
announce this party as the winner, Mazahir Panakhov, head of
the central election commission,
told reporters.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE), Europes main election
watchdog, did not monitor the
poll because as it said restrictions
imposed on it by the authorities
made credible monitoring impossible.
The government denies accusations of wrongdoing and the
commission said it had no complaints of serious violations during the poll.

Western governments balance
their criticism of Azerbaijans
record on human rights with
strategic considerations.
A mainly Muslim country of
about 9mn people between Iran,
Russia and Turkey, Azerbaijan is
host to oil majors including BP,
Exxon Mobil and Chevron.
Two major opposition parties
complained yesterday that the
election did not express peoples
free will, alleging violations that
included ballot stuffing.

The Musavat party doesnt
recognise the results of the November 1 parliamentary elections
(which was) conducted in an undemocratic environment, the
party said in a statement.
The parliamentary elections
were totally falsied and can
not be regarded as legitimate,
the Democratic Forces National
Council said in a statement.
Some foreign journalists, including reporters from Reuters,
were not given accreditation to
cover the election.
Erdogan takes to Twitter to hail poll win
Erdogan says Turks

voted for stability
AFP/Reuters
Istanbul
urkeys Justice and Development Party (AKP) is

set to form a single-party
government once more after a
stunning election turnaround
that strengthened the hand of
strongman President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan but sparked concerns it could further divide the
country.
The conservative Islamicleaning AKP reclaimed the majority it lost just ve months ago,
confounding opinion polls that
had predicted another hung parliament.
Emboldened by the landslide
win, Erdogan said that the people had voted for stability after
renewed conict with Kurdish
rebels and a wave of bloody jihadist attacks, and called on the
entire world to respect the outcome.
The president called yesterday
for the whole world to respect the
countrys parliamentary election
result which gave the AK Party he
founded nearly 50% of the vote.
Speaking to reporters after
praying at a mosque in Istanbul,
Erdogan said Turks had voted for
stability on November 1 after the
failure of coalition talks following
a June vote.
Turkish stocks and the lira
soared on the results, which
ended the political uncertainty
stoked by the inconclusive June
vote.
But many Turks were wary
of further polarisation under a
more powerful AKP and the possible threat to democratic rights
and freedoms.
The European Union said the
vote showed the strong commitment of Turks to democracy.
But the pan-European OSCE
(Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe) said in a
damning report that the election
was marred by a media crackdown and violent attacks, and
that the campaign was characterised by unfairness.
Turkeys main opposition
Cumhuriyet newspaper labelled
the AKP win a victory of fear
feeding on worries about security
and the economy.
Columnist Can Dundar said
society was now split in two:
Those who are ready to die for
Erdogan and those who cannot
stand him anymore have been
torn apart.
Erdogan is greeted by supporters during his visit to the Eyup Sultan mosque in Istanbul yesterday in this
handout photo provided by Presidential Press Office. Erdogan said yesterday that the nation had voted
for stability in a parliamentary election that saw the AK Party he founded win almost 50% of the vote, and
said the world should respect the result.
The AKP which until June
had won all elections since it rst
came to power in 2002 secured
almost half the vote to secure 317
seats in the 550-member parliament, according to latest results.
The outcome is a huge personal victory for the 61-year-old
Sultan, who may now be able
to secure enough support for his
ambitions to become a US-style
executive president.
That has set alarm bells ringing about how much power will
rest in the hands of a man who
critics say is already showing
signs of autocratic rule by clamping down hard on any opponents,
including the media.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on all parties to agree
on a new civilian constitution to
replace a 1980 post-coup military-drafted charter, something
that has been delayed for years.
Lets work together towards
a Turkey where conict, tension
and polarisation are non-existent, he told thousands of supporters outside AKP headquarters in Ankara.
AKP supporters honked their
horns in celebration but many
Turks greeted the result with
deep disquiet, and clashes erupted briey in the main Kurdish
city of Diyarbakir between police
and angry demonstrators.
Bulgaria conservatives
win local elections
AFP
Sofia
ulgarias ruling conservative party of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov scored

a resounding victory in local
elections this weekend, winning
mayoral seats in 22 out of the
27 major cities, official results
showed yesterday.
Borisovs Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria
(GERB) party won the mayors
seat in the second largest city
of Plovdiv in Sundays secondround ballot, a week after securing the capital, Soa.
Borisov is at the helm of an uneasy four-party coalition cabinet
after failing to secure a majority

in general elections in 2014.
The vote was a total disappointment for the opposition
Socialists, who failed to get a single mayoral seat in a major city
for the rst time in Bulgarias
post-communist history.
The liberal Turkish minority Movement for Rights and
Freedoms party, now in opposition, won only one mayoral seat
in the southern city of Kardzhali.
The remaining four big city
mayor seats went to independent
candidates and mayors backed
by the small right-wing Reformist Bloc, GERBs junior partner in
the cabinet.
The complete results are due
to be announced by tomorrow.
Im horried. I dont want to

live in this country anymore because I dont know what is awaiting us, said Guner Soganci, 26, a
waitress in Istanbul.
The AKP lost its majority for
the rst time in 13 years in June
when the pro-Kurdish Peoples
Democratic Party (HDP) entered
parliament in a historic breakthrough.
The political landscape has
changed dramatically since then,
with the country even more divided along ethnic, religious and
political lines.
Analysts said it appeared voters had deserted nationalist and
Kurdish parties after a surge in
violence between Turkish forces and the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) in July led
to the collapse of a fragile 2013
truce.
Erdogan said that the result
delivered an important message for the PKK: oppression and
bloodshed cannot co-exist with
democracy.
Support fell for the HDP, which
some accuse of being a PKK front,
and it only just scraped past the
electoral threshold of 10% to stay
in parliament.
There was disappointment for
the main opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP), which
had hoped to join a coalition,
and support for the Nationalist

Movement Party (MHP) also fell.
Turkey was also rocked by a
string of attacks blamed on the
Islamic State (IS) group, including twin suicide bombings at an
Ankara peace rally last month
that killed 102 people the
bloodiest in Turkeys modern
history.
The international community
will also be watching Turkeys
policy towards neighbouring
Syria, after it was cajoled into
joining the US-led coalition
against IS and launched its own
war on terrorism against the
jihadists, PKK ghters and even
US-backed Syrian Kurds.
Analysts say that the EU, desperate for help to solve the migrant crisis sparked largely by the
Syrian war, has little option but
to deal with Erdogan on his own
terms.
Turkey itself is sheltering over
2mn refugees, many more than in
the European Union.
Analysts said Erdogan can
now set the agenda for a European Union which dislikes doing
business with a man who wants
to join the bloc but also outs its
rules on human rights and press
freedoms.
The EU will be forced to swallow its pride and pander to the
hubristic ego of President Er-
dogan, Natalie Martin, an expert

on Turkish politics at Nottingham Trent University in Britain,
told AFP. In so doing, it will be
dealing with a government which
may be democratic but is certainly not liberal and which will
demand a high price for its cooperation.
Turkey is a longstanding candidate country for European Union membership but talks have
stalled, largely on concerns over
its human rights record which
critics say went from bad to
worse during the election campaign.
Yet in recent months Brussels
has been wooing its Muslimmajority neighbour in the hope
it will help resolve the Syrian war
and stem the ow of hundreds of
thousands of refugees and migrants eeing the conict.
Anne-Marie Le Gloannec of
the Sciences Po institute in Paris
said that the EU had got itself
caught between needing Turkey
to solve the migrants crisis and
holding up membership on its
rights record.
You cannot make membership harder and harder ... and
then ease off for this supposed
democracy that is just lamentable cynicism, just because you
need it to help you cope with a
ood of migrants, Le Gloannec
said.
He once wanted to wipe out Twitter and compared social media to a

murderers knife, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan couldnt resist
sending a tweet yesterday to celebrate his partys election victory.
The famously tech-phobic Erdogan issued a series of tweets on his official
account after the Justice and Development Party (AKP) he co-founded
reclaimed its parliamentary majority in Sundays vote.
I would like to congratulate all the parties that participated in the
November 1 election and all citizens who expressed the national will with
their votes, he wrote. I congratulate the AK Party that will come to power
alone, and my brother Ahmet Davutoglu who is AK Party chairman and
Turkish prime minister.
Erdogan, who was elected president last August after ruling Turkey as
premier for over a decade, has made no secret of his disdain for social
media and had vowed to eradicate Twitter ahead of local elections in
March 2014.
In August 2014 he compared social media to a knife in the hand of a
murderer, saying I dont like to tweet, schmeet.
The government blocked Twitter and YouTube a few days before March
2014 local elections after they were used to spread a torrent of audio
recordings implicating Erdogan and his inner circle in an alleged corruption scandal.
However, the president sent his first ever personal tweet from the account
@RT_Erdogan in February this year, denouncing smoking on Turkeys
national anti-tobacco day.
Police arrest editors, seize magazine after polls

Two top editors of a magazine critical of the Turkish government were
arrested yesterday and its latest issue seized, a day after the ruling Justice
and Development Party (AKP) won parliamentary elections, the Nokta
newspaper said.
The headline on the cover of its confiscated issues said: Monday, November 2, Start of the Turkish Civil War.
It appeared over a photo of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, founder of
the AKP.
Nokta, a weekly magazine reporting a circulation of 10,000, was also the
subject of a police raid in September after it published a photo montage
of Erdogan that showed him laughing as he took a selfie in front of a coffin
containing the remains of a slain Turkish soldier.
Police on Wednesday also raided the offices of a media group seen as critical of Erdogan and took two television news channels off the air.
Critics have repeatedly accused the president and the government of
eroding press freedom.
Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, a newspaper critical of the
government, warned about an AKP election victory on Sunday, saying:
We have to brace ourselves for a period of heightened repression.
Observers of the elections complained about restrictions on media
freedom.
The rapidly diminishing choice of media outlets and restrictions on
freedom of expression in general impacted the process and remain serious concerns, said Ignacio Sanchez Amor, head of the Organisation for
Security and Co-operation in Europe observer mission.
Reporters Without Borders, a media freedom group, ranked Turkey 149th
on press freedom on its list of 180 countries.
A fisherman reads a newspaper in Istanbul yesterday, a day after Turkeys general election.
Police raid Crimea Tatar TV channel, journalist homes

AFP
Simferopol
ussian police searched

the offices of a Tatar TV
channel in Crimea early
yesterday as well as the homes
of its employees as part of a new
probe, the latest actions against
the once-popular network
which was forced to go off air in
April.
About 20 armed men from
the FSB (security service) came
to my house at 5.30am and
seized all documents, computers and telephones, said Lilia
Budzhurova, the deputy director of ATR channel, adding that
her lawyer was not allowed to be
present.
The FSB said in a statement
distributed via Russian news
agencies that the probe had been

launched on October 22 against
Lenur Islyamov, who owns the
channel and other assets in Crimea.
Police also went to homes of
other journalists and their relatives, she said, and the search
was ongoing at the offices of
ATR in Simferopol, the main city
of the peninsula, said Budzhurova, who also works as a reporter
for AFP.
The police actions are related to an extremism probe
launched against Islyamov,
Budzhurova added.
Crimea region leader Sergei
Aksyonov, who became governor of the Black Sea region after
the peninsula was annexed from
Ukraine in March 2014, had long
criticised the channel for being
anti-Russian, though the outlet
had signicantly toned down its

political coverage.
However, the authorities are
accusing Islyamov of stoking
unrest by organising a blockade
of roads from mainland Ukraine
to Crimea to stop the ow of
supplies in protest against violations of rights of Crimean
Tatars, an indigenous ethnic
group on the peninsula that
makes up about 13% of its population.
Islyamov wants to starve
Crimeans, to rid them of water,
electricity and necessary products, Aksyonov said, calling it
mean and hypocritical.
His office added that police
will look into every organiser of
subversive actions against Russia and Crimea.
Islyamov, who had Russian
citizenship even before the pe-
ninsula was annexed, was a

moderate supporter of co-operation with the new authorities early on in Crimeas crisis
last year, when many Crimean
Tatars were vehemently opposed to Russias authority on
the peninsula.
Besides the channel, he owns
several other rms in Crimea,
including a transportation company and a distributor of Apple
products, according to the governors office.
Yesterday Russias Central
Bank also announced it is recalling the bank licence of Just Bank,
a bank that is controlled by
Islyamov according to the media, citing its non-observance
of laws regulating bank activities.
Crimea is suffering from
sanctions imposed by the West
following the annexation, as

most global distributors and
banks refuse to work there.
Supplies to the peninsula are
also unstable as it lacks a land
link with Russia.
The ATR channel, which
broadcast in Russian, Ukrainian
and Crimean Tatar, has been under pressure since the annexation, and the authorities forced
it off the air in April by refusing
to grant it a broadcasting licence.
Crimean Tatars were opposed
to the referendum to break away
from Ukraine, which Moscow
has insisted justied the annexation.
Many community leaders
have been expelled from the peninsula by the Russian authorities while others have probes
open against them.
Gulf Times
19
EUROPE
Prelate, sex bomb held in new Vatileaks scandal

AFP
Vatican City
he Vatican has arrested a

Spanish prelate and social
media expert for allegedly
stealing and leaking classied
documents in the second such
scandal to hit the secretive institution in three years.

Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo
Balda, 54, who served on a special commission set up by Pope
Francis to advise him on economic reform within the Vatican,
was arrested along with a second member of the commission,
Franciss drive for transparency has ruffled feathers and supporters

say the Pontiff has been targeted by vengeful mudslingers.
Merkels
coalition
woes
deepen
Reuters
Berlin
ice-Chancellor Sigmar
Gabriel has rejected the
idea of setting up transit zones on Germanys borders
to lter out migrants who have
little chance of gaining asylum,
deepening a rift within Chancellor Angela Merkels ruling coalition.
Germany, Europes biggest
economy, has become a magnet
for economic migrants and war
refugees from the Middle East,
Asia and Africa, and it now expects from 800,000 to 1mn asylum seekers this year, twice as
many as in any previous year.
The unprecedented inux has
opened up divisions within the
ruling coalition, with the Bavarian sister party of Merkels conservatives demanding tougher
measures such as transit zones
at Germanys land borders to reduce the number of new arrivals.
Merkel, who also backs the
transit zones, failed at the weekend to persuade Gabriels centre-left Social Democrats (SPD),
junior partner in her coalition.
The row has rocked her government and provoked rare criticism of her leadership both outside and within her conservative
bloc.
Gabriel accused Merkels Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer of
making unnecessary demands
and distracting from what he
said were the real challenges
in taking in and helping the refugees.
In our view, the debate about
so-called transit zones is a totally phoney debate, Gabriel said
after a meeting of senior party
members in Berlin.
As only very few of the new
arrivals come from Balkan countries that are deemed safe, transit zones to lter out such economic migrants directly at the
German border would have only
a very limited impact on the total
numbers, Gabriel said.
Also, European Union rules
would allow such a step only in
exceptional cases for a limited
time, which would further reduce the actual impact of the
move, he added.
Merkel, Gabriel and Seehofer
are expected to meet again on
Thursday to hammer out a compromise deal, but Gabriel said
he would not support an accord
just for the sake of coalition harmony.
If there is no agreement, then
there is no agreement, Gabriel
said, adding that the government would do better to concentrate on other tasks such as
speeding up asylum procedures
and improving the integration of
refugees.
German media billed the
weekends fruitless coalition
talks as a low point in Merkels
third term in office.
The leading business daily
Handelsblatt ran a headline on
its front page saying: The refugee crisis has become a government crisis.
Francesca Chaouqui, who has

been dubbed a sex bomb.
The arrests were part of a several months-long investigation
into the misappropriation and
disclosure of classied documents and information.
They followed Italian media reports at the weekend that
Vatican police were investigating
the attempted theft of a laptop
belonging to Libero Milone, the
head of the city states new nance office.
Both Vallejo Balda and social
media expert Chaouqui, 33, were
arrested but she was released
by Vatican prosecutor Roberto
Zannotti yesterday because she
agreed to collaborate with investigators and was not considered a
ight risk.
Chaouquis appointment to
the economic committee, which
was handpicked by the Pope,
caused no little embarrassment
in 2013 when it emerged the
woman dubbed a sex bomb by
the Italian media had been highly
critical of the Vatican on Twitter.
Vatican expert Sandro Andrea Tornielli said yesterday that
it was Vallejo Balda who got

Chaouqui a place on the committee.
A furious Vatican also denounced the expected publication this week of two new books
believed to be based on leaks
from hackers releasing information regarding the famously
murky world of its nances.
And it referred to the last time
employees aired the centuriesold institutions dirty laundry.
In 2012, pope Benedict XVIs
butler engineered a series of
leaks that revealed erce inghting in the highest echelons of the
Catholic Church and allegations
of serious fraud in the running of
the city state.
Butler Paolo Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in prison
for stealing secret papal memos
but pardoned by Benedict, who
nonetheless banished the once
loyal servant from the Vatican for
good.
As far as the books announced
for the coming days go, it is clear
that this time too, just as in the
past, they are the fruit of a serious betrayal of the popes trust,
the Vatican statement said.

It also dismissed any attempts
to echo the butlers excuse that
he leaked the information for the
popes own good.
Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi, who is releasing Avarice:
Documents Revealing Wealth,
Scandals and Secrets of Francis
Church, writes for LEspresso
newsweekly, an avid publisher of
leaks in recent years.
Merchants in the Temple, by
Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, follows his 2012 book which
was based on information gathered from Benedicts butler in
a scandal some believe was the
reason behind the pontiff s historic resignation.
Nuzzi is reported to be friends
with Chaouqui, who hit the
headlines again in 2014 when she
was suspected of having organised a lavish party for the rich
and famous on a Vatican terrace
at the Holy Sees expense much
to Franciss fury.
The Vatican said it was considering taking legal action against
the journalists.
Francis was tasked by his car-
In 2012 Benedict XVIs butler engineered a series of leaks that

revealed infighting in the upper echelons of the Catholic Church.
dinal electors to stamp his authority on the bickering Curia,
the Churchs governing body,
and clean up the Vatican bank
but the fresh leaks looked set to
fuel criticisms of his reform programme.
His drive for transparency at
the bank, once renowned for

shady dealings, has ruffled feathers and supporters say the Pontiff
has been targeted by vengeful
mudslingers including those
behind a rumour last month, denied by the Vatican, that Francis
has a benign brain tumour.
Octobers migrant ow
by sea equals 2014: UN
Reuters
Geneva
he number of migrants
and refugees entering Europe by sea last month was
roughly the same as that for the
whole of 2014, United Nations
refugee agency UNHCR said yesterday.
The monthly record of 218,394
also outstripped Septembers
172,843, UNHCR spokesman
Adrian Edwards said.
That makes it the highest
total for any month to date and
roughly the same as the entire
total for 2014, he said.
The UNHCR puts 2014 arrivals
by sea at about 219,000.
At the peak, 10,006 arrived in
Greeces shores on a single day,
October 20.
The vast majority of refugees
and migrants to Europe have
travelled via Turkey to Greece, a
switch from the previously more
popular African route via Libya
to Italy.
The largest group by nationality are Syrians, accounting for
53% of arrivals, as a result of the
civil war that has driven hundreds of thousands from their
homes.
Afghans come second, making
up 18% of the total.
The ow of refugees into Europe, however, is still dwarfed
by the numbers in Syrias neighbours.

Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan
have Syrian refugee numbers exceeding 2mn, 1mn and 600,000
respectively.
Globally, 60mn people are refugees or displaced within their
own country, not counting economic migrants.
UNHCR said in October that it
was planning for up to 700,000
refugees in Europe this year and
a similar or greater number in
2016.
But that plan has already been
eclipsed, with 744,000 arriving
so far.
Some 3,440 are estimated to
have died or gone missing in the
attempt to escape to Europe.
Certainly in 2016, we have
to expect this level of arrivals to
continue, and thats because the
facts that are causing people to
move arent going away, said Edwards. It is the new reality that
we all have to deal with.
Migration experts had expected the number of people making
the hazardous journey by sea to
dwindle as winter approached,
but the boats have continued to
arrive.
We hope that there will be
some reductions in the number of
people crossing this year, simply
to help with the manageability of
the situation, but unfortunately,
the underlying causes that are
Refugees and migrants arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey
yesterday. More than 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe last month a
monthly record and more than during the whole of 2014, the United Nations said.
making people move across the
Mediterranean to Europe are still
there, Edwards said.
The Greek coast guard said
yesterday that four refugees
drowned and another six were
missing off the Greek island of
Farmakonisi after their boat
sank.
Four people were rescued.

Eleven people, including six infants, drowned on Sunday when
their boat capsized off the island
of Samos, trapping them in the
cabin.
The toll from drowning among
thousands of refugees making
the short but dangerous crossing
Police investigate attacks targeting refugees

DPA
Berlin
erman police authorities were investigating

yesterday the latest bout
of violence targeting migrants
and refugees across eastern Germany, part of a wave of attacks
that have plagued the country as
some people lash out against an
inux of migrants.
Yesterday police in the eastern
community of Meerane provided
details of a clash the day before
in which a group of people attempted to block buses that were

trying to bring refugees to temporary homes.
About 700 refugees arrived in
the train station on Sunday.
From there, they were to be
bussed to a variety of centres.
But a crowd of about 200
showed up to protest their arrival.
Police said they ordered about
80 to disperse and ended up arresting three.
The police reported that officers were attacked with recrack-
ers. Two officers were injured in

the violence.
It was one of several incidents
over the weekend.
Authorities in Magdeburg and
Wismar reported yesterday that
they were investigating cases in
which groups of people attacked
asylum seekers.
In Wismar, the attacks were
carried out with a baseball bat.
And in the western state of
Lower Saxony, police led charges against a 43-year-old male for
throwing a petrol bomb at a home
for refugees over the weekend.
Stateless child born every 10 minutes, says UNHCR

Being born with no nationality can cause children irreparable harm, the United Nations said,
estimating that a stateless child is born every 10
minutes, notably as a consequence of conflict.
In the short time that children get to be
children, statelessness can set in stone grave
problems that will haunt them throughout
their childhoods and sentence them to a life
of discrimination, frustration and despair, UN
refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres said in a
new report.
The UNHCR report highlights consequences
such as children being deprived of medical care,
education and future access to employment.
In countries hosting the 20 largest stateless
populations, at least 70,000 stateless children
are born each year or one about every 10
minutes, said the UNHCR, which is aiming to
eliminate statelessness by 2024.
The report, to be launched by Guterres at the

UN headquarters in New York tomorrow, notes
that in 30 countries national documentation
is required to access basic medical treatment,
while in 20 countries stateless children cannot
even be vaccinated.
The problem is particularly severe among
migrants and refugees affected by conflict, the
report said.
In Syria, children can acquire nationality only
through their fathers, but the four-year civil war
has forced more than 4mn people to flee the
country and left 25% of families fatherless.
Women who fled Syria while pregnant told UN
interviewers that their hopes of one day returning home with their families could be crushed
without a birth certificate to prove that their
children are Syrian.
The UN agency proposed several measures to
The ames were extinguished

before any severe damage was
caused.
Police and experts say the
policies implemented by German
Chancellor Angela Merkel to allow in hundreds of thousands of
asylum seekers trying to escape
war zones is lending strength to
the far-right scene.
A journalist for the daily Tagesspiegel reported yesterday
that he had been attacked in
Berlin, apparently because of an
editorial he wrote decrying the
attacks on migrants.
eliminate the scourge of statelessness, including

the reform of discriminatory laws that prevent
mothers from passing on nationality to their
children.
Children should also automatically become
nationals of the country where they are born,
UNHCR further said.
The report identified discrimination as the main
cause of statelessness, pointing to 20 countries
where nationality can be denied on the basis of
ethnicity, race or religion.
In some countries, laws prohibiting such
discrimination are ignored in practice, such as
the Dominican Republic where people of Haitian
descent have often been denied Dominican
citizenship, UNHCR said.
Globally, several million children are watching
their childhoods slip away without the sense
of belonging and protection that comes with a
nationality, the report said.
from Turkey to Greeces outlying

eastern islands has risen in recent
weeks with the onset of colder
weather.
There were near-gale force
winds blowing in the Aegean Sea
at the weekend.
From the start of the year until October 29, at least 435 people
had drowned in the Aegean trying to reach Greece, according

to data from the International
Organisation of Migration (IOM),
an inter-governmental body.
More than 580,000 migrants
and refugees have entered Greece
through its long sea border with
Turkey this year, creating a tough
logistical, nancial and humanitarian challenge for the cashstrapped European Union member state.
Greece has agreed to temporarily house up to 50,000 refugees on its territory this year,
with many in temporary housing
subsidised by the United Nations.
The rst relocation of a group
of 30 asylum seekers from Greece
to Luxembourg, which presently
holds the rotating European Union presidency, will take place
on Wednesday, November 4, the
Greek interior ministry said yesterday.
The migrants are from Syria
and Iraq.
It is a symbolic move designed to urge and encourage
European governments to show
active interest in receiving refugees, the ministry said.
As well as Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Germany, Cyprus,
Lithuania and Finland have also
shown an interest in the relocation programme, the Greek ministry added.
Gangsters held after

businesses revolt
Reuters
Palermo, Sicily
n a large-scale revolt, 36
shopkeepers and businessmen have denounced the
maa and reported extortion
rackets in a mob stronghold
near the Sicilian capital, leading to the arrest of 21 suspects,
police said yesterday.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi hailed the apparent collapse
of the maa code of silence, or
omerta, in the town of Bagheria, where the boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano had
spent many years as a fugitive
before his eventual capture in
2006.
Police said they issued 22 arrest warrants for maa chiefs
and their henchmen based on
information the local businessmen provided.
After the arrests, just one
suspect was still on the run.
Giuseppe De Riggi, commanding officer of the Carabinieri military police, told
Reuters that it was unheard of
for so many victims to stand
up at once to the Sicilian Maa, known as Cosa Nostra, es-
pecially in a traditional bastion

for the mob.
In a place like Bagheria,
which is not a big city, its very
signicant to see such a high
number of collaborators, he
said.
Sicilian businessmen have
long had to choose between
handing extortion money to
Cosa Nostra Our Thing
in Italian or face the consequences of violent reprisal,
ranging from death threats to
arson and even assassination.
Thanks to the courage of
those who refuse to be blackmailed, thanks to the Carabinieri and investigators, Bagheria is not their thing, Renzi
said on Twitter.
Many economists blame organised crime for the souths
chronically sluggish and underdeveloped economy.
Cosa Nostra was once Italys
most powerful criminal group,
but it has lost some of its sway
due to the states ability to capture many of its top bosses.
The Calabrian maa, known
as the Ndrangheta, has replaced Cosa Nostra as the
countrys most dangerous
criminal network.
20
Gulf Times
INDIA
VIOLENCE
MURDER
INVESTIGATION
TECHNOLOGY
SMUGGLING
Two inmates killed

in prison gang war
Teen kills uncle to

avenge mothers death
Banks ex-chief
appears in court
Incubator attracts 130

startups even before launch
Medicines worth Rs3mn

seized near Bangla border
Two prisoners were killed and six inmates

injured in a gang war that broke out in
the district jail in Mangaluru in Karnataka
yesterday, police said. Two gangs clashed
in the jail premises in which two prisoners
Madoor Isubu, 36, and Ganesh Shetty, 43 - died
and six were injured, Police Commissioner S
Murugan said. Mangaluru is around 350km
from Bengaluru. Though Shetty was convicted
in Mumbai, he was shifted to the district jail as
he hails from the coastal district of Dakshina
Kannada, while Isubu was still an undertrial, as
he had appealed against his conviction. Shetty
was also suspected to be an aide of Mumbai
gangster Chhota Shakeel.
A 19-year-old youth has been arrested in Gurgaon

for shooting his 35-year-old uncle dead to avenge
the killing of his mother over a decade ago, police
said yesterday. Police arrested Lalit alias Jony
for gunning down his uncle Sandeep Kataria,
who owned and ran the Shri Radha Krishna Cow
Care Centre. Police also arrested 22-year-old
Bittu alias Monu, a resident of Nilothi village near
Haryanas Bahadurgarh, for providing shelter to
Jony. Jony told the police that Kataria and some
other family members had shot his mother dead
over a decade ago following a property dispute.
Police said Jony had targeted his uncle twice
during 2013-14, but Kataria did not realise that his
nephew was behind the attacks.
Syndicate Banks sacked chairman and managing

director S K Jain, Bhushan Steel Ltd vice chairman
Neeraj Singhal and others yesterday appeared
before the court after summonses were issued
against them in a 2014 corruption case. Along with
Jain and Singhal, middleman Vineet Godha, Puneet
Godha, Vijay Pahuja and Pankaj Kumar Tiwari
appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) special judge Gurdeep Singh in New Delhi.
The CBI last month filed a set of charges, naming
Jain, Singhal, the two Godhas, Pahuja and Tiwari as
accused. The agency has alleged that Jain received
a bribe of Rs5mn through conduits and abused his
official position to enhance the credit limits of some
companies in violation of procedures.
Creating a buzz even before its formal launch,

T-Hub, Indias largest technology incubator, is
almost completely booked, attracting over 130
startups from across the country. The facility in
Hyderabad, claimed to be only one of its kind in the
country, has also tied-up with 20 venture capitalists
and is also in talks with University of Texas,
Houston, MIT Media Lab, Incubio of Spain and
laboratories and academic institutions in India and
abroad for collaboration. Aimed at providing right
ecosystem for startups and making Hyderabad the
startup capital of India, the facility will be formally
inaugurated by Tata Sons chairman emeritus
Ratan Tata along with Telangana Governor E S L
Narasimhan on November 5.
The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized

medicines worth over Rs3.2mn while they
were being smuggled out to Bangladesh from
West Bengals North 24 Parganas district,
an official said yesterday. The seizure was
made on Sunday night from the area under
Petrapole border outpost by troopers of the
40th battalion. Challenged by a BSF team,
some people who were carrying a big box
and moving towards Bangladesh fled leaving
behind the box containing a large quantity of
medicines, said a BSF officer. The medicines
included nine different types of injections and
six types of tablets. The seized medicines have
been handed over to the customs officials.
Court set
to sentence
Uber driver
convicted of
rape today
Protest against minister
Kerala holds
rst round of
civic polls;
turnout 75%
Agencies
New Delhi
New Delhi court is expected today to sentence

an Uber driver for raping a
female passenger in New Delhi, a
case that sparked fresh fears in a
city hit by sexual violence.
Shiv Kumar Yadav could face
life in jail for the rape and abduction of his 25-year-old passenger
as she returned home from dinner with friends last December.
A Delhi court convicted Yadav
of four charges last month but
sentencing was delayed because
of a shortage of police in the Indian capital, where a summit of
African leaders was being held at
the time.
The nal argument on quantum (of punishment) and sentencing will happen in the second half of tomorrow, public
prosecutor Atul Shrivastava said
yesterday.
The prosecution is expected to
argue for the maximum punishment.
Yadav was tried by one of the
fast-track courts introduced in
2013 following the fatal gangrape of a student on a bus in
Delhi, a crime that sparked nationwide protests about womens
safety in India.
India recorded 36,735 rape
cases in 2014, with 2,096 of them
in Delhi alone. Experts say those
gures are likely to represent only
the tip of the iceberg.
California-based Uber was
accused of failing to conduct adequate background checks after it
emerged that Yadav had been accused of assaulting other women,
although he had no previous convictions.
The company was officially
banned from Delhi, but the ban
has not been well enforced and
Uber cars continue to operate in
the capital.
Uber set up its India operation
in September 2013 and now does
business in more than a dozen
cities.
Meanwhile Uber said it has
signed an agreement with the
Army Welfare Placement Organisation (AWPO) under the defence
ministry to create a job platform
for ex-servicemen.
Senior Congress leader A

K Antony says there is no
alternative to the UDF
By Ashraf Padanna
Gulf Times Correspondent
Thiruvananthapuram
Congress workers stage a demonstration against Madhya Pradesh minister Kusum Mehdele
accused of kicking a boy, in Bhopal yesterday. However, the state government questioned
the veracity of a video clip showing the boy being kicked and denied the allegation. No such
incident took place, government spokesman Narottam Mishra said.
he rst phase of the politically signicant civic polls

held in seven districts of
Kerala yesterday saw a turnout
of 75%.
Thiruvananthapuram, Kasaragod, Kannur, Kozhikode, Kollam,
Idukki and Wayanad went to the
polls in the rst phase. Voters in
seven remaining districts will
elect their representatives on
Thursday.
Wayanad reported the highest polling of 80% followed by
Kannur (76.65), Kasaragod (76),
Idukki (75), Kozhikode (74.7),
Kollam (74) and Thiruvananthapuram (72.6).
Counting will be held on Saturday.
In 2010, the Congress Partyled United Democratic Front
(UDF) swept the three-tier local
self-governments.
The elections are closely
watched with Chief Minister
Oommen Chandy calling it a
semi-nal before the state assembly elections ve months
away and Prime Minister Narendra Modis Bharatiya Janata Party
making desperate attempts to
open its electoral account in the
state.
Reports from districts said
polling was by and large peaceful
barring some stray incidents in
some booths.
Senior Congress leader and
former defence minister A K
Antony, who cast his vote in the
state capital, said the UDF would
perform even better than the

Aruvikkara by-election it won in
June this year.
To think of an alternative to
the UDF is a terrifying dream for
the voters, he said.
Chandy will vote in the second phase in his home constituency of Puthuppally. He reiterated that the outcome would be a
referendum on his governments
performance.
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, the
secretary of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist), said
the polls would be the beginning of the downfall of the UDF
while his plitburo colleague Pinarayi Vijayan said ruling front
would disintegrate after the
polls.
We have won every election
after 2006, while they make only
tall claims, mocked Chandy.
V Muraleedharan, BJP president in the state, said the polls
would see a new political change
and the emergence of a third
force.
IANS adds: In Uttar Pradesh,
the ruling Samajwadi Party
claimed victory in local panchayat polls that dealt a jolt to the
BJP and helped All India Majlise-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen MIM
of Asaduddin Owaisi to open its
account.
The Congress suffered a rout,
getting wiped out even in the two
Lok Sabha constituencies of Rae
Bareli and Amethi represented
by party president Sonia Gandhi
and her son Rahul Gandhi.
The Samajwadi Party claimed
victory in the polls, saying the
results were tilted in its favour.
The results are a clear signal that the people are favouring the development-oriented
politics and governance of (Chief
Minister) Akhilesh Yadav, party
Boy kills
girlfriend
Ex-paramilitary personnel
stage protest over OROP
IANS
New Delhi
ver 200 retired paramilitary personnel yesterday

launched a three-day protest here demanding One Rank
One Pension (OROP) for around
1.3mn retired and serving personnel of the Central Armed Police
Forces (CAPF).
The retired paramilitary personnel, under the banner of Delhi-based All India Central Paramilitary Forces Ex-servicemen
Welfare Association, gathered at
Jantar Mantar in central Delhi demanding OROP and many other
rights for CAPF personnel under
the central civil services rules.
A retired paramilitary officer,
participating in the protest, said
that the CAPF should be treated
at par with the armed forces.
He said CAPF personnel were
part of all the wars - 1965, 1971 and
the 1999 Kargil war as they had
fought along with the Indian Army
and were the rst line of defence.
He said that since independence, 22,250 army personnel lost

their lives in various battles, while
33,678 CAPF personnel were
killed in the line of duty.
Many other retired CAPF ofcials said the announcement of
OROP for the army reected the
discriminatory attitude of the
government towards them.
We are the rst line of defence
in the country and guarding the
national border, Maoist-affected
areas, the border with Pakistan
or the insurgency-hit Jammu and
Kashmir and the northeastern
states, said P S Nair, general secretary of the association.
A number of our personnel are killed in the line of duty
every year. We dont understand
why the government is ignoring
us in providing central facilities
like other armed forces. All CAPF
personnel should be provided
benets, Nair said.
While there are over 950,000
serving personnel in forces like
the Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF), Border Security Force
(BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal

(SSB) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which comprise the CAPF, there are over
350,000 retired personnel.
Nair said that if OROP is sanctioned to the CAPF, it would cost
around Rs20bn to the government exchequer.
Take the case of the Line of
Control (LoC), where the BSF is deployed along with the Indian Army.
If personnel from both the forces
are killed in any operation, the family of army personnel get four times
more pension than those of the BSF
jawan. Is it not a kind of discrimination? asked Nair.
He said that since 2004, they
were clubbed with other government officials and that they
stopped getting pension.
After the Sixth Pay Commission
was announced in 2004, the pension for all government servants
was made contributory in nature,
with 10% of the salary being contributed by the employee and the
government each, Nair said.
spokesman and cabinet minister

Rajendra Chowdhary said.
The outcome has come as a
shock to the BJP, which jumped
into the fray despite reservations
of party veterans against contesting the polls.
BJP candidates didnt do well
in the election, which was widely
seen as a semi-nal ahead of the
next assembly elections.
BJP leader Om Mathur, who is
in charge of the state, is reaching
in Lucknow to take stock of the
results.
Independents have won the
largest chunk of seats, an election official said.
In Maharashtra meanwhile,
the Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal
Corporation (KDMC) elections
threw up a hung house, with the
Shiv Sena edging past the BJP,
while the Congress-Nationalist
Congress Party alliance appeared
set to retain power in the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation
(KMC).
All the four major parties,
which were ruling the outgoing
civic bodies in alliance, fought
the elections separately this time
after their split prior to the October 2014 assembly polls that propelled the BJP to power.
The Shiv Sena emerged as the
single largest party by winning 52
of the 122 seats in the KDMC. The
BJP stood second with 42 while
the Maharashtra Navnirman
Sena (MNS) secured nine seats.
Worried by a 10-seat shortfall
to secure a simple majority, the
Shiv Sena may be compelled to
seek the support of other parties
unless it decides to tie up with
the BJP.
The Congress got four seats in
the KDMC, the NCP two, and the
AIMIM and the BSP won one seat
each.
IANS
Ranchi
Former paramilitary personnel stage a demonstration demanding one rank one pension at Jantar
Mantar in New Delhi yesterday.
16-year-old boy strangled his girlfriend to

death on suspicion that
she was having an affair with another boy, police said yesterday.
The teenager was arrested
from a boys hostel yesterday.
According to the police, the
suspect is a student of the Rajkiya Tana Bhagat Uchcha Vidyalaya in Sonchipi, around 40km
from Ranchi. He was staying
at Tana Bhagat Adivasi Hostel
managed by the school.
He allegedly brought his
15-year-old girlfriend to the
boys hostel on October 30.
On Sunday night, he allegedly
strangulated the girl to death.
According to the police, the boy
had a heated argument with his
girlfriend and in a t of rage,
killed her.
No one was aware of the girls
presence in the hostel.
The body has been sent for
postmortem.
Gulf Times
21
INDIA
Black money whistleblower seeks protection to reveal details

IANS
New Delhi
SBC bank whistleblower

Herve Falciani yesterday
said he was willing to cooperate with the Indian investigative agencies in probing black
money cases if he was given protection.
I have a lot of information
about Indians stashing away
money abroad but for that I need
co-operation and support of the
Indian investigation agencies

towards the safety of whistleblowers, Falciani said through
videoconferencing.
If I come to India to help investigators, I will be arrested.
Im not able to share information because of lack of co-ordination, he added.
Asked if he was looking for
money to share information with
India, he said, It is not about
the money or becoming rich. I
want to help India in tracking
down the intermediaries.
Falciani is facing charges in

Switzerland for leaking details
of bank account holders in the
Geneva branch of HSBC. The
French government, which later
accessed the list, shared with
India information relating to Indian clients of the bank.
He said that billions are owing out of India, Russia, Brazil
and Argentina every year.
We are at economic war
and information is the only
tool through which we can
hold our ground. For a coun-
try like India it is necessary to

protect the whistleblowers or
the insiders who give information, he said.
The central government had
formed a Special Investigation
Team (SIT) on the directions of
Supreme Court to probe black
money cases. The SIT is led by
two former judges - M B Shah
and Arijit Pasayat.
Earlier in August, Falciani
had written to the SIT saying
the Indian government did not
appear serious about pursu-
ing and tracking down black

money.
In the letter addressed to
Shah, Falciani had said SIT adviser K V Chowdhary had met
him on December 15 and16, 2014
in Paris where he had advised
the Indian investigators to join
in and continue the investigation with other countries rather
than work with data alone to get
limited results.
There is an urgent need to focus on unraveling the role of nancial intermediaries. If this is
not done status quo will prevail

as far as the black money problem in India is concerned, he
had told the SIT.
Former Aam Aadmi Party
leaders Prashant Bhushan
and Yogendra Yadav were also
present at the press conference.
Hitting out at the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) led-central
government for adopting a lax
attitude Bhushan said the authorities were not serious in
bringing black money back.
The SIT told the government

that around Rs271,000 crores
were invested in the stock market
through participatory notes and
the anonymity of these holders
should not be allowed and their
names should be known to the
authorities.
The government has not accepted this recommendation of
SIT. Why is the government not
implementing the SITs recommendation for doing away with
the anonymity of participatory
notes? he asked.
Congress to
meet president
over rising
intolerance
IANS
New Delhi
ongress president Sonia Gandhi will lead her

partys protest march
to the Rashtrapati Bhavan
today against rising intolerance after the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power.
The
party
yesterday
slammed Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for his barbs
at the Congress over the antiSikh riots in 1984.
Congress leaders said the
march today would include
party vice president Rahul
Gandhi, members of the Congress Working committee,
party office-bearers and party
MPs.
The march will start from
Parliament House and party
leaders are expected to give
a memorandum to President
Pranab Mukherjee to convey
their concern on rising intolerance.
Price rise issue may also gure during the protest march,
a party leader said.
Gandhi met the president
yesterday evening but party
sources termed it as personal meeting.
The meeting came on a day
Modi targeted Gandhi, saying
Congress leaders had no right
to talk about tolerance when
they were involved in the 1984
anti-Sikh riots.
Madam Soniaji, do you
remember 1984? What happened in Delhi? Sikhs were
killed. Serious charges were
made against the Congress.
Ironically, now the Congress
talks of tolerance, Modi said
at an election rally in Purnea
in Bihar.
He said after two Sikh bodyguards assassinated then
prime minister Indira Gandhi,
innocent Sikhs were killed
in broad daylight... And the
Congress is giving lectures on
tolerance.
Congress leader Anand
Sharma reacted sharply to
Modis remarks, saying his
comments were politically
motivated and a mischievous attempt to reopen the
wounds of 31 years.
He said the riots that followed the assassination of the

former prime minister were
tragic and a sad chapter,
adding that successive governments have explored every
possibility to provide a healing
touch.
Fortunately in this country we were able to restore the
social unity and the faith of all
the people which was reected
both in our national elections
as well as the formation of
elected governments - whether of the Congress Party or of
the BJP-Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, he said.
Sharma said Modi made the
latest remarks to divert attention from the rising concerns and fears in the country
over orchestrated campaigns
to create atmosphere of fear
and intimidation.
The prime minister has
chosen even now not to respond to the concerns expressed by eminent Indians
who have made rich and notable contributions - scientists,
authors, lm producers, poets
and others, he said.
Sharma said Modi needs
to be reminded that he is the
prime minister of India.
He should not even think
and act as a BJP leader or as an
RSS pracharak (preacher) but
full and honour his constitutional duties and his moral
duty as Indias prime minister, he said.
Referring to Modi invoking
name of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during
the Bihar polls, Sharma asked
if the prime minister had forgotten advice given to him to
follow raj dharma after the
Gujarat riots.
He said former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had immediately gone out on the streets
of Delhi to diffuse communal
sentiments and calm people
after reaching the capital from
West Bengal in the wake of the
assassination of his mother
Indira.
Sharma alleged Modi did
not utter a single word for
three days after the Gujarat
riots of 2002 and did not take
effective measures to control
the situation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters during a rally in Darbhanga in Bihar yesterday.
PM accuses Congress of
playing partisan politics
Modi, facing tight election,
hits back at intolerance
criticism
Reuters
Purnea, Bihar
rime Minister Narendra

Modi, battling to win power in the heartland state
of Bihar and revive stalled economic reforms, hit back at critics
yesterday for painting a picture
of intolerance in the country.
Rivals say the ruling Bharatiya
Janata Party is whipping up religious tensions to win the election in Bihar, the countrys third
most populous state and critical
to Modis plans to improve his
Separatists march casts

shadow over Modis rally
IANS
Srinagar
ashmiri separatist leader

Syed Ali Geelanis proposed Srinagar Million
March on November 7 has become a headache for security
agencies who have been detailed
for Prime Minister Narendra Modis rally here on the same day.
Geelani has asked people to
join the march in large numbers.
Other separatist leaders, including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Mohamed Yasin Malik, Asiya Andrabi and others have supported
his call for the march to coincide
with Modis rally.
Director General of Police K Rajendra Kumar reviewed the overall
security situation in and around
Modis rally venue on Sunday.
A team of the SPG (Special

Protection Group) is ying in
today to take over the security
at the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket
Stadium in Srinagar, an intelligence officer said yesterday.
Hundreds of policemen, Central Reserve Police Force troopers, state and central intelligence
agencies are working in tandem
to ensure foolproof security for
the prime ministers rally - his
rst in the Kashmir Valley after
the alliance of Peoples Democratic Party and the Bharatiya
Janata Party assumed power in
the state on March 1.
Dozens of CCTV cameras,
sniffer dogs, mobile surveillance
bunkers and drop gates are being
put in place to ensure the safety
for the people coming to attend
the November 7 public rally, a
senior police officer said.
In order to prevent the separatists from disrupting Modis

rally, the authorities have placed
over 30 separatist leaders and
activists under house arrest in
Srinagar.
Police have also been taking
some known stone-throwers
into preventive custody to ensure peace in Srinagar city during the prime ministers rally.
While Geelani continues to remain under house arrest in his uptown Hyderpora residence, Malik,
Shabir Ahmad Shah, Mohamed
Nayeem Khan, Showkat Ahmad
Bakshi and others have also been
placed under house arrest.
Chief Minister Mufti Mohamed Sayeed, who has been visiting
different places in the Kashmir
Valley recently, has called upon
people to come out in large numbers to attend Modis rally.
partys strength in the upper

house of parliament.
Modis administration has
faced a rising tide of criticism for
failing to rein in hardline Hindu
groups that are campaigning for
issues such as cow worship in a
multi-faith country.
Modi, addressing a political
rally in Purnea, sidestepped the
criticism and accused his longtime foe, the Congress Party, of
playing partisan politics.
Re-opening a sensitive chapter in recent history, Modi said
hundreds of Sikhs were massacred in Delhi by supporters of the
Congress soon after the assassination of prime minister Indira
Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards
in November 1984.
Should the Congress be

giving lessons in tolerance?
he said to thunderous applause from supporters wearing saffron headbands. Sikh
families in Delhi are still
grieving. Have you tried to
wipe their tears?
Modi himself has faced allegations that he looked the other
way or was complicit in attacks
on Muslims in Gujarat, which he
governed, after a mob set a train
carrying Hindu pilgrims on re.
He has denied the charges and
a Supreme Court ordered investigation absolved him of any
wrongdoing.
Members of the Modi government have expressed concern
about the rising number of Mus-
Rajan likely to be deported
lims and want policies to control

it.
Growing Muslim population
is a big threat and people must
realise that fast, said Giriraj
Singh, a federal minister, in an
interview with a news channel
yesterday.
We have to protect Hindu religion, Hindu temples and food
habits.
Since the BJP swept to power,
Hindu groups have stepped up
a campaign against intermarriage with Muslims, describing
it as love jihad, have begun
rewriting school textbooks to
reflect a nationalist view and
are demanding a ban on cow
slaughter.
Last month a Muslim man
Delhi fails to collect

new pollution toll
AFP
New Delhi
Alleged crime boss Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, 55, known

as Chhota Rajan, is brought out from a holding cell at
the Bali police headquarters in Denpasar on Bali island
yesterday. Rajan who was arrested in Indonesia after two
decades on the run is likely to be deported to India soon.
was beaten to death by a mob

for eating beef and another was
murdered for espousing atheism.
There is extreme intolerance, Bollywood superstar
Shah Rukh Khan told India Today television channel. A string
of writers have returned awards
given by the government in protest against attacks on religious
minorities.
Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan also called
for greater tolerance.
Modi promised voters that he
would lift Bihar out of poverty.
Control of Bihar is key to Modis
ambition to secure a majority in
the Rajya Sabha, the upper house
of parliament.
ew Delhi has failed to

collect a new pollution
toll from trucks entering the city, officials said yesterday, just one day after the levy
was introduced to improve air
quality in the choked city.
The Supreme Court last
month approved a four-month
trial plan to charge light commercial vehicles an extra Rs700
and Rs1,300 rupees for large
trucks entering Delhi, blamed
for much of the lthy air in the
worlds most polluted city.
But private contractors collecting existing tolls for the city
refused to enforce the courts directive from November 1, citing
a lack of clear instructions from
Delhi authorities.
We didnt collect any extra

green tax last night. There is still
so much confusion - no proper
communication, no trained staff,
no instructions about monthly
passes, a toll official said on condition of anonymity.
Trucks have long been banned
from entering the city during the
day, but every night after 8 about
52,000 pour in, according to the
Delhi-based Centre for Science
and Environment (CSE).
The independent centre says
lorries account for nearly a third
of the pollution in Delhi, adding to
a toxic mix of industrial fumes and
dust from construction sites to
produce hazardous levels of smog.
Many of the trucks drive
through the capital at night to
avoid paying tolls outside the
city, which is ranked as having
the worlds worst air quality by
the World Health Organisation.
22
Gulf Times
LATIN AMERICA
Guatemalas next leader eyes GPS tags on teachers, phones for kids
Reuters
Guatemala City
asking in the glory of a

landslide in Guatemalas
presidential election, a
former comedian with no government experience has some
unorthodox policy plans: he will
tag teachers with GPS trackers to
ensure attendance and give poor
kids smartphones.
Costly
departure
packages
for Haiti
officials
Jimmy Morales, 46, who sailed

to victory with 67.5% of the vote
on an anti-corruption platform,
has said little about how he would
curb gang violence or stem the
ow of migrants to the US, leaving a cloud of uncertainty over
key issues.
No other candidate has been
called everything from a clown to
a populist, but the smartphone is
the least populist (idea) that there
is, Morales said in an interview
after his massive win. He will take

office in January.
He plans to start with a pilot
programme in schools in 45 of
Guatemalas municipalities, and
said it would cost the government
nothing.
We are going to give (the telephone companies) school and
government walls to paint their
brand logos on to compensate
them, said Morales, adding that
he has been in contact with Tel-
efonica, Tigo and Claro, some of

the countrys largest telecom operators.
Morales rode a wave of voter
outrage over a graft scandal that
toppled former president Otto
Perez last month, making the
ght against corruption his central pledge and playing up his status as a political outsider.
But critics have called some of
his policies eccentric and said his
ideas on how to deal with some
of Guatemalas major challenges,

such as violence and undocumented migration, are vague at
best.
Morales said Central Americas
largest economy should focus on
bolstering criminal investigations to tackle lawlessness, instead of resorting to the military,
allaying fears that his partys ties
to the armed forces could lead to a
larger role for the military during
his four-year term.
Bus drivers stop work
Housing advocacy groups

say local governments in
Brazil are using the coming
Olympics to justify forced
evictions and segregation
in Rio de Janeiro
Guardian News and Media
Rio de Janeiro
People wait for buses during a strike by public bus drivers in Asuncion, Paraguay, yesterday. The
two-day strike by bus drivers is to demand the reinstatement of dismissed workers.
Violence fuels Central

American refugee crisis
AFP
Mexico City
omen, often with

children, are fleeing Central America and parts of Mexico in
increasing numbers due to
alarming levels of violence, the UN refugee agency
said.
While the refugee crisis in
the Middle East and Africa
may be making headlines,
we are seeing another refugee situation unfolding in
the Americas, said UN High
Commissioner for Refugees
Antonio Guterres said as he
issued a new report on the
situation.
The report, titled Women on the Run, is an early
warning to raise awareness of
the challenges refugee women face and a call to action to
respond regionally to a looming refugee crisis, Guterres
said.
The report states that
women and children in both
Central America and Mexico
face alarming rates of escalating, targeted violence and

persecution from criminal
gangs, including murder,
disappearance, assault, rape,
and recruitment of children.
Female police officers,
women with children, and
transgender women face
disproportionate levels of
persecution.
According to the report,
the UN agency has recorded
a nearly five-fold increase
since 2008 of people reaching the US from El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Honduras
seeking asylum, and a nearly
13-fold increase of asylumseekers from the same countries arriving to Mexico and
other parts of Central America.
The most vulnerable,
namely women and children,
are often the first to flee violence.
Governments often stand
by helplessly. Escalating violence from well-connected,
armed and dangerous criminal groups in the region has
surpassed the governments
capacity to respond, the report said.

The UNHCR urged regional
governments to give emergency aid to women and children, to assist in the asylumseeking process, to avoid
unnecessary detention, and
to address the root causes of
forced displacement.
The global refugee crisis
is growing in the Americas.
Everyone has to step up and
respond, the report said.
Guterres also criticised the
dysfunctional response by
both the US and Europe to
the sudden increase in refugees.
The Europeans and Americans were taken by surprise
by a situation that could have
been foreseen. And when societies and governments are
taken by surprise usually the
response is dysfunctional, he
said.
He said it is important to
learn from experience so that
when the next crisis comes,
people are prepared and the
response can be better organised and more functional.
its Central American neighbour,

which has one of the worlds
highest murder rates.
He oated the idea of assigning an engineering unit within
the military, one of the countrys
most opaque institutions, to
build roads and bridges.
Given there is no war, we
dont need combat, Morales
said, adding that the country
could save money by using the
military to build infrastructure.
Brazil evicting
families from
homes ahead
of Olympics
Tribune News Service

Port-au-Prince
n poverty-stricken Haiti,
where there is a revolving door
for Cabinet ministers, being a
government official used to be an
unprotable sacrice.
But with just four months left
before the end of his ve-year
term, President Michel Martelly
issued an order giving his 23 government ministers and 15 secretaries of state lucrative departure
packages. The plan has prompted
protest.
Upon leaving office, not only
will every minister get free police
protection for six months - or
two officers for three months for
lower-ranking secretaries of state
- but according to the official register, Le Moniteur, each minister
will also receive the equivalent of
$46,818.22 as a departure bonus.
The secretaries of state will
each get $37,454.58. All will be
able to import a vehicle for personal use duty-free.
In a country where teachers
and other civil servants often go
months without their salaries
and 6.3mn out of 10mn Haitians
are still unable to meet their basic food needs, many Haitians are
scandalised.
Government spokesman Mario
Dupuy calls the decision an anticorruption measure.
Its a way for people not to fall
into corruption after they leave
office, said Mario Dupuy, Haiti
government spokesman
You have a large number of
ministers who dont even have the
ability to buy a vehicle when they
leave office. These are people who
are often in an extremely precarious situation, Dupuy said.
Boosting departure payouts,
he said, has long been under discussion. This bonus separation
initiative is very regrettable and
unacceptable in a context where
begging has become exponential
in Haiti, said Claude Beauboeuf,
a former chief economist for the
United Nations Development
Programme in Haiti.
Some founders and lawmakers of his centre-right National

Convergence Front (FCN) party
are veterans of the military, which
has raised concerns among many
Guatemalans because the army
massacred thousands of indigenous Maya in Guatemalas bloody
civil war from 1960 to 1996.
He said a Honduras-style militarisation would not work for
Guatemala, even though it has
helped to stem gang bloodshed in
fter 75 years living in the

same house in a busy
neighbourhood in the
heart of Rio de Janeiros North
Zone, 88-year-old Arlette Rosa
Jose struggled to adapt to life on
the distant fringes of the city.
Along with another 385
families in the area, she and her
daughter were forced from their
home when city hall ordered
their removal to make way for a
high-speed bus lane linking the
international airport with Barra
da Tijuca, the neighbourhood
that will host most of the 2016
Olympic Games venues.
Complications over the legal status of the property mean
the Joses have yet to receive any
compensation. And with no
money, the family has moved to
an area where the rent is affordable, over 30km away from their
original home.
We have no friends here,
said Arlettes daughter, Elizabeth. My mother spends a lot
of time just sitting on the sofa,
weeping.
According to gures from
Rio de Janeiro city government,
22,059 families have been resettled since 2009, either because
of their homes being labelled at
risk or to make way for transport and other infrastructure
projects related to the Rio 2016
Olympic Games.
City hall insists that the only
Spectre promo
resettlements related to the

Games are those of the 344 families at Vila Autodromo, a favela
on the fringes of the main Olympic Park. Many of those families
have been relocated to Parque
Carioca, a condominium complex 1km away.
But Theresa Williamson, the
executive director of the Riobased NGO Catalytic Communities, which lobbies for the
recognition of the citys favelas
as the solution to its housing
decit, says that the local government is using the pretext of
the Olympics to segregate the
city.
Wherever there is an Olympics, the level of transparency goes way down, she said.
Whether its for the new BRT
(the Bus Rapid Transit system) or
the evictions at Vila Autodromo,
the Olympics is the context for
all of these resettlements.
Dozens of bus lines have recently been axed, complicating
yet further the journey into the
city for many of its commuters. This is part of an unofficial
policy to divide the rich from the
poor in Rio, Williamson said.
Almost three-quarters of the
families removed from their
homes over the past six years
have been rehoused under the
federal governments agship
social housing programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV).
While some of these residents
have been moved to housing estates near their original homes,
more than 8,600 families have
been moved to the citys West
Zone, in some cases up to 60km
away from the city centre.
According to Dr Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, an LSE sociologist who recently carried out
research on the resettlements,
Four rescued after a

month adrift at sea
AFP
Mexico City
Austrian-German actor Christoph Waltz (left), British actress

Naomie Harris (centre) and British actor Daniel Craig pose for
pictures during the presentation of the 24th edition of the James
Bond movie Spectre, in Mexico City. Spectre featuring Daniel
Craig as the MI6 spy 007 premiered in Mexico yesterday.
the distance, exacerbated by

the areas poor transport links,
has had a massive impact on
residents job opportunities and
mental health.
In her study of the Recanto da
Natureza, a housing complex of
384 apartments 50km outside of
Rio, Fernandez Arrigoitia found
that many of the residents were
obliged to work from home, despite rules banning the use of the
apartments as work places.
As well as the loss of jobs, residents also complained they had
to pay more for utilities. A lack
of local schools, health facilities
and other basic infrastructure
is another common concern for
those living on the fringes of the
city.
In many of the citys MCMV
complexes, illicit militia groups
are also a serious concern.
Mainly comprised of off-duty or
former police officers and reghters, militias extort taxes
from residents in return for basic
services and security.
Sixty kilometres from the
centre of Rio, the Almada Condominium in Santa Cruz houses
many of those forced out by the
BRT Transcarioca, which links
the international airport with
Barra da Tijuca, the site of the
main Olympic park.
Residents pay between R$30
to R$50 ($8 to $13) a month to
a local militia, which in return
supplies gas and cable TV, and
says that it prevents the spread
of drug trafficking. Those who
cannot or will not pay are expelled.
More people are leaving than
entering, Claudia Cury, a resident, said. Lots of people are
selling up and moving back to
the favela because there are so
many hidden costs.
he Mexican navy has

rescued four shermen
from Colombia and Ecuador who spent more than a
month adrift in a small boat
after getting lost at sea and
running out of fuel.
The shermen, who set
off in late September from a
Pacic Ocean port in northwestern Ecuador, were rescued Saturday off the coast of
Chiapas in southern Mexico,
some 2,000kms away, said
the navy.
The night before, a patrol
plane had spotted a small
boat adrift with four crew
waving their arms for help,
the navy said in a statement.
A navy patrol was dispatched to rescue the men two Colombians, age 28 and
34, and two Ecuadorans, 26
and 42.
The castaways said they
launched from the port of
Esmeraldas, Ecuador on September 24 and got lost at sea
while shing, said the navy.
They ran out of fuel on Oc-
tober 1 as they tried to return

to port, then got swept north
by the current, it said.
Rescuers gave the badly dehydrated men water, food and
medical care.
They were then handed over
to immigration authorities in
Chiapas.
In January 2014, a Salvadoran sherman named Jose
Salvador Alvarenga was found
in the southern Pacic after 13
months lost at sea in a small,
open boat with a broken engine.
Alvarenga, who had set off
from Mexico, was found in the
Marshall Islands, 12,500kms
away. The emaciated castaway
told journalists he survived by
eating raw sh and bird esh
and drinking rain water, turtle
blood and his own urine.
He said his Mexican crewmate died four months into
the ordeal and that he pushed
his companions body into the
sea.
His tale initially drew skepticism, but he passed a lie detector test and a University of
Hawaii study of ocean winds
and currents backed up his
story.
Gulf Times
23
PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN
CRIME
ECONOMY
HERITAGE
MEDIA
POLITICS
10,000 Pakistanis hold

multiple passports
Pakistan likely to face

balance of payment crisis
Raj Kapoors Peshawar

home falling apart
Journalists under threat

in southwest Pakistan
Khawaja Ahmed tipped as

next Lahore mayor
Lawmakers and diplomats are among 10,000

Pakistani citizens who have acquired multiple
passports by submitting forged documents.
Officials of interior ministry have disclosed that
when the automated fingerprint identification
system was not in place, around 10,000
individuals obtained more than one passport on
the basis different multiple computerised identity
cards. Among the multiple passports holders
are diplomats, businessmen, senior civil servants
and lawmakers, an interior ministry official said.
The government has included 1,550 passports of
deported individuals and 4,800 double passport
holders on the passports control list.
Business tycoon Aqeel Karim Dhedhi has said

Pakistan will face a balance of payment (BoP)
crisis next year. In an interview, the chairman of
the AKD Group said the external sector of the
economy is likely to come under pressure as
soon as 2016 when foreign exchange inflows
from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stop.
The BoP reflects all economic transactions of a
country with the rest of the world. A BoP crisis
can put the national currency under pressure. In
simple words, money leaves the economy during
a BoP crisis and the government finds it difficult
to borrow further, thus wrecking the value of the
national currency.
After last weeks 7.5-magnitude earthquake,

massive cracks have appeared in the ancestral
home of Bollywood legend Raj Kapoor in
Peshawar, Pakistans northwestern provincial
capital. Locals now fear that the house could
collapse at any moment unless authorities
step in. The Kapoor Haveli is one of the more
imposing buildings in the old city, situated
in Mohallah Dhaki Munawar Shah, inside the
Asamai Gate and can be accessed through the
narrow, winding streets of the historic Qissa
Khwani Bazaar. It is surrounded by a number of
almost century-old houses with arched wooden
windows and gates.
A month and a half back, the press club in

Khuzdar district of Balochistan province opened
unannounced after being shut for over a year. The
press club was shut down in August last year after
its president received threats from unidentified
men shortly after a press conference was held by
members from the Hindu community revealing
names of people involved in kidnapping for
ransom. There were calls by some journalists
in Khuzdar to make the opening of the club a
bigger affair by calling the director general of
Frontier Corps and other higher-ups from lawenforcement agencies but the general consensus
among journalists was to keep it a low-key affair.
Having trampled predominant majority of its

political rivals in the October 31 local bodies
ballot exercise in all the 12 districts of Punjab,
the ruling PML-N now finds itself in an extremely
comfortable position to nominate and get its
Mayors elected in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujrat,
Kasur, Okara, Vehari, Bahawalnagar, Chakwal,
Pakpattan, Lodhran, Bhakkar and Nankana Sahib.
As far as the nominating the Mayor of Lahore
is concerned, the 56-year-old Khawaja Ahmed
Hassan is, of course, the most favourite of all the
PML-N candidates or aspirants, though an official
announcement in this context is on the anvil and
still being awaited.
Media coverage
of insurgent
outts banned
AFP
Islamabad
akistani authorities yesterday called on broadcasters to refrain from

covering dozens of banned insurgent groups, including an
organisation allegedly tied to
the 2008 Mumbai attacks, as
officials widen their crackdown
against militants inside the
country.
The order follows the introduction earlier this year of the
National Action Plan aimed
at reining in militancy inside the
country after Taliban gunmen
massacred more than 150 people
at a school in Peshawar in late
2014.
The directive issued by the
Pakistan Media Regulatory
Authority (PEMRA) prohibits
broadcasters from covering the
activities of 72 different outlawed groups, including Jamaatud-Dawa (JuD), the charitable
wing of the Pakistani militant
group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The LeT has been blamed for

carrying out the attacks in the
Indian nancial capital in 2008
that killed 166 people.
All satellite TV channels/
FM radio licences are therefore
strictly directed not to give any
kind of coverage to any proscribed organisation including
Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation, Lashkar-eTaiba, PEMRA said.
All satellite TV channels/

FM radio licences are
therefore strictly directed
not to give any kind of
coverage to any proscribed
organisation including
Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Falahi-Insaniat Foundation,
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation is tied to the JuD and has
participated in ood and earthquake relief in recent years, including operations following last
weeks 7.5 magnitude quake that
killed 272 people in Pakistan.
The regulatory body said me-
dia organisations must refrain

from broadcasting any advertisement calling for donations to
banned organisations.
The directive also prohibits
outlets from broadcasting any
programme that could potentially incite violence or is prejudicial to the maintenance of law
and order.
PEMRA added that noncompliance would invoke legal
action that could result in nes
or the potential termination of a
broadcasters licence.
The order was issued following the review of the 20-point
National Action Plan.
Pakistan has long been accused of playing a double game
with militants by supporting
groups it thinks it can use for its
own strategic ends, particularly
in disputed Kashmir.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since
the end of British colonial rule
in 1947. But both claim the restive Himalayan territory in its
entirety and have fought two of
their three wars over Kashmir.
Men load blankets on a supply truck to be distributed in earthquake stricken areas, in Islamabad, yesterday.
Pakistan earthquake causes Taliban

cracks in World Heritage sites faction
IANS
Islamabad
PML-N maintains top

position in local polls
Internews
Lahore
he ruling PML-N of Prime

Minister Nawaz Sharif
secured a thumping majority by bagging 1,192 posts of
union council chairman/vicechairman, with independents
(mostly Leaguers) gaining the
second position with 1,065 seats
in the rst phase of local government elections in Punjab.
The PTI could secure only 285
seats, while some upsets were
also reported in various areas in
12 districts on Saturday.
Former ruling parties, PPP and
PML-Q, succeeded in clinching only 47 and 44 UCs, respectively. Jamaat-i-Islami and Dr

Tahirul Qadris Pakistan Awami
Tehreek bagged two seats each.
Elections in 33 union councils
could not be held or their results
were not announced till late
Monday night.
In its stronghold of Lahore,
the N-League secured 220 of
the 274 offices of union councils.
Thirty-one independents were
also elected. The PTI got only
13 seats amid what its provincial
organiser Chaudhry Sarwar said
disappointing performance as
compared to other districts.
Out of the 80 PPP candi-
dates, only one, from the area

under the inuence of Samina
Ghurki, could succeed, while JI
was whitewashed in the provincial metropolis. It lost even in
the union council comprising its
headquarters in Mansoora.
Meanwhile, two activists of the
PTI were shot dead in Haft Madar
village in UC-48 yesterday allegedly by PML-N supporters. After
having been elected councillor,
Rana Afnan, and his supporters,
were celebrating their victory
when rival candidate Rana Naveed
with four supports allegedly
opened re on them. Iqbal and
Arslan, both PTI activists, were
killed and Akram was injured.
he 7.5 magnitude earthquake that rocked Pakistan last week caused

cracks in the countrys World
Heritage sites of Takht-i-Bahi
and Jaulian as well as in museums and artefacts of Gandhara
Civilization, officials said.
The Takht-i-Bahi, a Parthian archaeological site in
Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
province, and Jaulian ruins of
an ancient Buddhist monastery in Haripur district developed cracks following the
October 26 earthquake, Dawn
online reported.
The quake caused a lot of
damage to the sites and artefacts. After assessment, we
would compile a complete report about it, said Abdul Samad, director of archaeology
and museums of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The quake, which also hit India and Afghanistan, killed at
least 250 people in Pakistan and
damaged properties.
In Takht-i-Bahi a wall has
collapsed and cracks in structure are visible now, said Samad.
The inner chamber developed cracks. The wall of the
main assembly hall has leaned
on one side, an eyewitness
said.
Jamal Garhi, a Buddhist site,
which was on tentative list of
World Heritage, was the worst
affected as the walls have collapsed, Samad said.
Sharing initial reports of the
damage compiled by the archaeology department, he said
teams were sent out to the sites
to assess the damage after the
quake.
The site of Jamal Garhi, discovered by Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1848, is located in
Mardan district.
Jaulian, another World Heritage site in Khanpur city of
Punjab province, was also affected by the quake. The tremor
damaged a wall of the monastery and chapel.
I know the damages are huge
and even government would

not be able to save these sites
on its own, Samad said, pointing out how little was spent on
archaeology in Pakistan.
Chitral museum was also affected by the earthquake as its
showcases toppled over and
antiques were broken.
One of its walls also collapsed. The walls of Dir and
Swat museums also developed cracks and the showcases
broke.
In historic Peshawar museum, a gallery has been affected
by the tremor, said Samad.
Peshawar museum, having a rich and rare collection of
Gandhara Civilization, has been
established in an old British-era
Victorian style building.
Despite having rich archeological sites and artefacts including rare statues of the
Buddha, there is no earthquake
resistant museum or gallery in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Gor Khattree, another important site in the middle of
Peshawar city, has also been
damaged.
Pakistan anti-Taliban hero dies aged 89

AFP
Islamabad
Pakistani nationalist hero

who deed the Taliban in
Swat Valley and survived
more than 10 assassination attempts by the insurgents has
died peacefully of liver disease
at the age of 89, his family said
yesterday.
Prominent Pashtun leader
Afzal Khan Lala was feted nationwide after his stand in Swat,
where he vowed he would stay
despite multiple attacks on
his home by the Taliban and a
bloody military offensive that
displaced millions.
He was buried late Sunday in
the scenic valley after he passed
away in a military hospital in the
garrison city of Rawalpindi, his
nephew said.
In 2007 the valley previously a popular international tourist destination, which lies in the
shadow of the Hindu Kush in the
northwestern province of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa fell under the

control of the Pakistani Taliban.
Radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah mounted a violent campaign in which his followers
beheaded opponents, burnt
schools and fought to enforce Islamic Shariah law.
Lala refused to leave his home,
vowing I would rather die than
cede ground to the Taliban.
He survived his rst Taliban
assassination attempt in 2008
when militants opened re on
his car, killing his two security
guards.
Most of the further 10 attacks
were on his home in Matta
also Fazullahs native village and
the then-headquarters of the
Taliban. The militants torched
around 80 shops he owned and
destroyed his fruit orchards.
He also stood rm during a
bloody offensive by the Pakistan
army which saw millions ee the
valley.
Originally called Mohamead
Afzal Khan, Lala graduated with
a law degree in Karachi before
going on to become a veteran

politician of the Awami National
Party.
He also wrote six books and
headed a Pashtun Nationalist
movement called PONM (Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement) in the 1990s.
He was imprisoned from 1975
to 1978 when the government of
Zulkar Ali Bhutto banned his
party, but was freed by military
dictator Zia ul-Haq.
Pakistans Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his grief
and lauded Lalas services to democracy, local media said.
Afghan president Ashraf
Ghani also offered his condolences, saying in a statement that
Lala was a moderate, kind and
thoughtful politician, he served
and fought all his life for sovereignty and peoples rights... His
death is a big loss.
Lala was awarded Pakistans
highest civilian award for bravery, the Hilal-i-Shujaat, in 2009.
He is survived by his wife,
three sons and three daughters.
An undated photograph shows prominent Pakistani Pashtun leader Afzal Khan Lala (right) posing for a
photograph with a friend in Swat Valley.
picks rival
leader
Reuters
Peshawar
splinter faction of the Afghan Taliban has selected

its own leader to challenge the new chief of the militant group, two insurgent commanders said yesterday, raising
fresh doubts about chances of
breathing life into stalled peace
talks.
The Taliban, battling to oust
foreign forces and the USbacked government from Afghanistan, were thrown into
turmoil in July when the death
of their long-term leader, Mullah Mohamed Omar, was announced.
Omars deputy, Mullah Akhtar
Mohamed Mansour, took charge
but there was grumbling in the
ranks and some analysts have
attributed big Taliban attacks in
recent months to a bid by Mansour to establish his reputation
as leader and stamp his authority over the group.
A commander within the dissident faction said they had chosen Mullah Mohamed Rasool
Akhund as their leader and they
would not ght Mansour but
would keep their focus on old
enemies.
We ... have chosen our own
leader to lead the mujahideen
against US-led foreign forces
and the government, said the
commander, who declined to be
identied.
A spokesman for Mansour was
not available but a second militant commander said Akhund
was a Taliban veteran.
He is one among the old Taliban leaders. He spent 10 years
with Mullah Omar and was one
of his trusted men, he said.
The splinter group has fewer
resources and ghters than the
Mansour group but it could become a rallying point for disaffected Taliban, some of whom oppose talks with the government.
The challenge the faction
poses to Mansour could mean he
is less likely to consider resuming the moribund peace process,
analysts say.
It was unclear whether the
splinter faction might link up
with other militants who have
split from the main Taliban.
24
Gulf Times
PHILIPPINES
Airport security personnel

suspended over extortion
Manila Times
Manila
t least 40 airport security screeners have been

placed under investigation over various complaints
against them, including their
alleged involvement in an extortion scheme that involves the
slipping of bullets into the bags
of passengers checking in for
their ights.
According to David de Castro, spokesman for the Manila
International Airport Authority
(MIAA), the screeners belong to
the Office of Transport Security
(OTS), an agency under the Department of Transportation and
Communications (DOTC).
The MIAA, which manages
the four terminals of the Ninoy
Aquino International Airport
(NAIA), had revoked the screeners access passes and they are
no longer authorised to enter
the airport premises.
De Castro, however, claried
that some of the 40 OTS staffers are facing investigation for
complaints that date back to as
far as 2010.
Some of them, he said, were
charged with offences ranging
from simply not following procedures to the bullet scam that
is locally called laglag-bala or
tanim-bala.
The scheme involves the
sneaking in of live or blank
rounds of ammunition into the
bags of unsuspecting passengers as they pass through security checks at the airport.
The passengers victimised in
the scheme are then apprehended by airport security for illegal
possession of ammunition.
Some have claimed that a
syndicate is behind the scheme.
From January to November
2015, a total of 514 passengers
were arrested for allegedly possessing bullets, with 30 of them
President Benigno Aquino presides over a meeting in Malacanang specifically called to address the bullet scam.
charged in court. Vice President
Jejomar Binay called for the immediate relieving of all OTS
personnel after an uproar over
the spate of tanim-bala incidents in airports.
The vice president sought
a thorough review of Executive Order 311 creating the OTS,
which he described as a duplication of functions already assigned to agencies like the Aviation Security Group (AVSEC) of
the Philippine National Police
(PNP).
On its face, there are overlapping functions concerning
airport security. We have AVSEC
of PNP that is supposed to have
operational control over security concerns in our airports, and
yet you have an autonomous
agency under the DOTC supposedly having sole authority
over airport security, he said.
The vice president added that
the public needs to know the
criteria used by OTS in hiring
personnel and whether they are
qualied and competent to handle airport security matters.
The PNP follows a selection
process and sets xed requirements for hiring policemen. The

OTS under the DOTC, however,
is a big question mark. Do they
have security experts in their
organisation? What kind of
training do they receive and how
do they select their personnel?
he asked.
At least ve people have
claimed to have been recently
victimised by the scheme, MIAAs de Castro said.
Ninfa Fontamillas, 65, was
apprehended on Sunday after a
bullet was detected inside her
bag.
Reports about the alleged
scheme have been posted and
went viral on social media.
At least three lawmakers have
asked President Benigno Aquino
to re retired Major Gen. Jose
Angel Honrado, the MIAA general manager, over the controversy.
Honrado, who acted as the
presidents head of security
when he was still a candidate in
the 2010 elections, is credited
for having saved his life in the
1989 coup attempt against the
Liberal Party officials deny

plan for black operation
By Reina Tolentino
Manila Times
iberal Party (LP) officials

yesterday took turns
in belying a supposed
black propaganda to eliminate Vice President Jejomar
Binay and Sen. Grace Poe from
the presidential race in favour
of administration standard
bearer Manuel Mar Roxas.
In separate interviews with
Manila Times, Budget Secretary Florencio Butch Abad,
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr
and LP spokesman Barry Gutierrez denied hatching insidious legal moves to have Poe
disqualified and Binay jailed.
I absolutely have no
knowledge of that. But in this
season of partisan politicking,
candidates come up with absurdities to attract attention,
said Abad, a member of the
so-called Hyatt 10 who broke

away from former President
Gloria Arroyo. Belmonte, who
is also LP campaign manager,
claimed that Binay has powerful lawyers who can take
care of his legal problems.
Its not true. Ridiculous.
Regarding Grace, (the) ombudsman has no say. Regarding Binay, Im sure he has
powerful lawyers with influence in the ombudsmans office, the House leader said.
The officials were reacting to a Manila Times report
about an alleged plot hatched
by the LP with former associates of the defunct powerful
law firm, CVC Law, or The
Firm to ensure the victory of
Roxas by getting rid of his two
strongest rivals.
The agenda is to apply
their full might and influence
to have Grace disqualified
while making sure that Binay
is put behind bars, a source

said. Joey Salgado, one of Binays spokesmen, said they
are aware of such dark legal
operations.
Gutierrez dismissed the report as mere rumours.
VP Binay and Sen Poes
cases are already being taken
up in the appropriate tribunals, following regular processes. These processes are open
and have always been open to
scrutiny by the public. Mar and
Leni (Robredo) have received
their fair share of unfair attacks these past few weeks. But
they havent whined, or complained, or screamed black
propaganda! at the top of
their lungs. Instead they have
quietly, calmly, patiently answered every question, issued
the necessary clarications,
and taken the appropriate steps
to address each issue, the LP
spokesman pointed out.
rst Aquino administration.

Malacanang spokesman Edwin Lacierda brushed aside
questions if the president will
heed the call to have Honrado
red from his post, saying the
DOTC is investigating the matter.
The president yesterday directed Transportation Secretary
Jose Abaya to come up within
the week with a report on the
alleged scam.
The president has been
briefed and has given further instructions in order to rene the
efforts under way. The DOTC,
as the lead agency, will be updating the public, Lacierda said
in a brieng in Malacanang.
The Palace press office later in
the day released pictures of the
meeting showing Aquino presiding over a meeting with officials that include Abaya, Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa,
Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras, Presidential Management
Staff chief Julia Abad, Interior
Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento,
PNP Director-General Ricardo
Marquez, MIAA General Man-
ager Honrado, PNP-Aviation

Security Group Chief Supt.
Pablo Francisco Balagtas and
Communications
Undersecretary Manuel Quezon, among
others.
Lacierda said the president
has ordered the DOTC to identify the real cause of the problem.
The presidents approach
is the correct identication of
the problem which leads to the
correct identication of the solution, he added. So we are
casting a wide net on the data,
on the process and areas for improvements.
Lacierda at the same time
downplayed reports that a syndicate was behind the scam,
saying these were just allegations.
We want a thorough look
at the whole situation so that
proper solutions can be given
and these are long-term solutions that can be put in place,
he said.
Lacierda added that Abaya
had ordered the installation of
additional closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at the airports security screening areas.
The Land Transportation and
Franchising Regulatory Board
(LTFRB) also yesterday said it
has summoned a taxi driver who
was allegedly involved in the
bullet scam at the NAIA.
LTFRB chairman Winston
Ginez announced in his Twitter account that the agency will
summon the driver of the taxicab for allegedly being involved
in the laglag-bala scam.
In a Facebook post, Julius
Niel Habana said his fellow seaman who was about to go to the
NAIA nearly fell victim to the
scam after he allegedly caught
the driver slipping in a .38 cal.
bullet round in his bags pocket.
For fear they might end up
as victims of the laglag-bala
scam, passengers have their
luggage wrapped with cello-
he abysmal utilisation of
donated funds for victims of calamities shows
the governments callousness,
Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr
said yesterday, following reports that more than P300mn
in donations remain untapped.
The senator expressed dismay over the governments
insensitivity to the plight
of disaster victims as well as
its failure to properly use the
calamity funds and donations
intended for families hit by
super typhoon Yolanda and
other calamities.
Marcos called on the government to use the idle funds
to provide permanent shelter
to families rendered homeless
by typhoons and other calami-
Ferdinand Marcos Jr
ties. The senators call is in response to a report by the Commission on Audit (COA) that
P385mn in donations coursed
through the Office of Civil
Defence (OCD) under the Department of National Defence
(DND), remained unused as of
2014.
The senator particularly
cited the unused donations

for victims of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) amounting to
P136,996,859.29 of which only
P38mn was used.
It has been two years since
typhoon Yolanda devastated
Tacloban and other nearby
areas but many of the survivors are still complaining that
they have yet to get permanent
shelters that the government
promised for them, the senator said.
Marcos, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Public
Works, conducted an investigation into the alleged substandard bunk houses constructed as temporary shelters
for Yolanda survivors.
A group of Yolanda survivors cited data from the
National Housing Authority, which showed that only
534 out of the 13,801 targeted
DPA
Manila
vegan menu at an upcoming Asia-Pacic summit

would highlight the issue of climate change, as well as
benet the delegates health, an
animal rights group said yesterday.
Raising animals for food is the
source of 51% or more of global
greenhouse-gas emissions, and
more vegetarian eating habits
are necessary worldwide to ght
global warming, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
said, citing a UN report and the
Worldwatch Institute.
The Asia-Pacic Economic
Co-operation (Apec) leaders
summit, to be held in the Philippines this month, would be a
good opportunity to showcase
vegan versions of the hosts cuisine, the group said.
A vegan menu is good for conference attendees health, too,
said Jason Baker, vice president for
international operations of PETA
Asia. Vegans are less prone to
heart disease, cancer and diabetes
than meat-eaters are, he wrote in
the letter to the Apec secretariat.
Veganism would not be a culinary
constraint, he added. President
Barack Obama might enjoy tofu
adobo, and President Xi Jinping
might like mock dinuguan, he
said.
Adobo, considered the Philippines national dish, is a
stew usually of pork or chicken
cooked in soy sauce and vinegar,
while dinuguan is a dish made
from pigs blood, innards and
pork meat. The Philippines will
host the meetings starting November 12, with the summit on
November 18-19.
It will host a welcome dinner
for the leaders of the 21 member
countries on November 18.
Getting ready for festive sale
A woman arranges Christmas lanterns in a shop in Manila. Lanterns and other holiday decorations have started to sprout in malls, as the
Philippines, which is touted to celebrate Christmas the longest, starts its countdown to the season.
Marcos slams govt over unused disaster funds

Manila Times
Manila
phane plastic. No matter what

size the bag is, the cost of plastic
wrapping at the NAIA Terminal
3 is P160 per bag.
Run by a private concessionaire, the plastic wrapping business at the terminal, albeit not
so popular before, started during the administration of airport
general manager Alfonso Cusi,
according to Terminal 3 manager Octavio Lina.
The original plastic wrapping
stall located at the NAIA Terminal 1, however, had been closed
for unknown reason.
According to the stall clerk,
who refused to be named, luggage plastic wrapping has become a lucrative business at
Terminal 3 lately when the alleged bullet planting has been
exposed. More passengers leaving NAIA 3 for international
or domestic ights have gone
to the wrapping stall, the clerk
said.
When the news broke out
about the scam, several passengers choose to spend more than
a hundred peso for their luggage
because they believe it is safer
than without plastic wrap, the
clerk added.
Passengers whose bags have
been cleared in the initial security check immediately go to
the wrapping kiosk to have their
luggage wrapped.
Most of the interception of
bullets occurred at the airports
nal security check, a few metres away from the boarding
area.A family bound for Davao
who had their bags wrapped in
plastic commented, What a
shame, we need to wrap our luggage like this.
The Public Attorneys Office
(PAO) has offered to help passengers who have been victimised in the scam.
PAO chief Persida RuedaAcosta, in an e-mail message to
Manila Times, said they can call
the PAO hotline at 929-9436.
Activists call
for vegan
meal at
Asia-Pacic
summit
permanent houses have been

built by the government as of
September this year. In a separate hearing conducted by the
Senate committee on Urban
Planning, Housing and Resettlement chaired by Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito last
month, the panel learned that
of the 205,128 houses to be
built by July 2016, only 16,000
have been constructed.
Marcos said the government
could have used the idle funds
to provide immediate assistance and relief to victims of
calamities.
This smacks of not only
insensitivity to the plight of
the disaster survivors but also
negligence of duty, he added.
Marcos vowed to bring
up the issue of the unused
calamity funds during the
forthcoming 2016 budget
deliberations in the Senate
to ensure that the funds are

tapped for their intended
purpose.
The Senate resumes its
sessions today after a monthlong legislative break.
The Anakpawis party-list
also condemned the Aquino
administration for its failure
to use the donations to help
typhoon victims.
The rage of typhoon victims is indescribable over the
Aquino governments criminal negligence. Many have
died, starved, endured living
in tents, make-shift camps,
went bankrupt and lost their
farms and other hardships,
but we are discovering that the
donations supposed to help
them are hoarded. The Aquino
government should be held
responsible for this mercilessness, Rep. Fernando Hicap of
Anakpawis said.
21,000 forcibly evicted

since 2010: group
By Nelson S Badilla
Manila Times
total of 21,516 persons

were victims of a series of
demolitions in different
parts of the country in the past
ve years, a human rights group
revealed yesterday.
The victims include children
who were not given decent relocation areas, according to Karapatan. The number of victims
was recorded from July 2010 to
September 2015.
Wilson Fortaleza, spokesman
for the Partido Manggagawa
(PM), said more than 21,000 victims were sufficient proof that
the urban poor sector has not
been the priority of the Aquino
administration since the start of
its term in 2010. Fortaleza said

President Benigno Aquino favours land developers than the
informal settlers.
Before, Metro Manila had
only exclusive villages. Today,
the cities are becoming the exclusive domain of the upper
class, he noted.
According to Fortaleza, PM is
very sure that the biggest majority of the victims are workers if
not all.
He said many workers could
not afford to own a house because of their low take home pay
each month.
The workers could also not
afford to rent apartments where
the monthly rental fee is high,
thus, they are forced to rent small
but cheaper rooms in squatter
areas, Fortaleza added.
Gulf Times
25
SRI LANKA/BANGLADESH/NEPAL/MALIDIVES
BNP leaders
bail plea
is rejected
by court
By Mizan Rahman
Dhaka
T
Nepalese police battle protesters throwing rocks during clashes near the Nepal-India border at Birgunj yesterday.
Nepal police re on
protesters, one dead
Protests continue over constitutional
changes that displeased the Madhesis
AFP
Kathmandu
epal police yesterday red into a

crowd of protesters trying to block
a key border checkpoint and killed
an Indian civilian as anger over a new constitution boiled over.
The violence came hours after police forcibly broke up the blockade in the
southern town of Birgunj on the border
with India that has led to crippling fuel
shortages and cut off access to other vital
supplies in the landlocked Himalayan nation.
Police warned the protesters to disperse but they did not listen, compelling
security forces to open re, said Nepal
police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam.
An Indian national was wounded and
died after being taken to hospital.
Four police were injured in clashes at the
checkpoint in Birgunj, Bam told AFP.
Bam could not conrm if any other civilians were wounded. A local party leader
involved in the protests said seven people
had been hurt, including a 11-year-old boy
struck by a rubber bullet.
When police red rubber bullets at the
demonstrators, one hit the child on the
head, leaving him bleeding, said Shiva Patel, general secretary of the regional Sadbhawana party.
Earlier, police used batons to disperse
ethnic minority protesters angered by Nepals new constitution, which they say will
Nepalese petrol tankers heading to the Chinese border yesterday.

leave them politically marginalised.
Patel said hundreds more protestors
had arrived at the scene after police beat
up demonstrators and burned down their
tents to force an end to the blockade that
began on September 24.
We were outnumbered then but now
hundreds more have descended on the
bridge and blocked it again, he said.
The protesters, from Nepals Madhesi
ethnic minority, want the government to
change the constitution because they say a
new federal structure it lays out will mean
they are under-represented in parliament.
The latest violence dashed hopes of a
compromise raised when the government
and protesting parties held weekend talks.
Madhesi leaders announced a halt to negotiations.
We will not sit at a table and hold talks

with the government until the police stop
attacking our people, said Laxman Lal
Karna, vice-chair of the Sadbhawana
party.
More than 40 people have been killed
in clashes between police and people protesting against the constitution, which
was introduced in September after a deadly earthquake pushed warring political
parties to reach agreement.
India, which has repeatedly urged dialogue, said it was deeply concerned by
yesterdays violence.
Issues facing Nepal are political in nature and cannot be resolved by force, its
foreign ministry said in a statement.
Causes underlying the present state
of confrontation need to addressed by the
Government of Nepal credibly and effectively.

The fuel crisis has soured ties between
Nepal and its powerful neighbour, with
authorities in Kathmandu accusing New
Delhi of imposing an unofficial blockade
to show its dissatisfaction with the new
constitution.
Nepal has long sourced all its fuel from
India, but the movement of cargo across
Birgunj and other Indian border checkpoints had slowed to a crawl since the
blockade began.
New Delhi denies the charge and has
urged dialogue with the protesting Madhesis, who have close cultural, linguistic
and family ties to Indians living across the
border.
There was no immediate sign of fuel
trucks entering Nepal, although a customs
official told AFP more than 100 empty
Indian trucks left stranded in Nepal due
to the blockade had crossed over to India
during the brief period the border was
open.
The disruption prompted Nepal to sign
its rst-ever fuel supply agreement with
China last week, ending a decades-long
monopoly by India.
Beijing also agreed to donate 1.3mn litres
of petrol to Nepal to try to ease shortages.
The blockade has also forced international aid organisations to halt relief operations for tens of thousands of quake
victims just weeks before winter.
The constitution was meant to cement
peace and bolster Nepals transformation
to a democratic republic after decades of
political instability and a 10-year Maoist
insurgency.
Bangladesh publishers burn books

to protest against latest killing
Agencies
Dhaka
ngry publishers burnt

books and closed their
businesses in Bangladesh
yesterday, in the third day of protests over the latest gruesome
attacks on secular writers and
publishers by suspected hardline
Islamists.
Hundreds of people, including
book-shop owners, took to the
streets of Dhaka to protest perceived government inaction over
a string of attacks including the
machete murder on Saturday of a
publisher of secular books.
This is not an isolated incident. They rst started killing
authors, then the bloggers and
now theyve targeted the publishers, Mustafa Selim, head of
the Bangladesh Creative Publishers Society, told reporters.
Rallies were also held in other cities and towns to demand more protection for publishers, bloggers and
writers, some of whom have ed the
country or gone into hiding, rally organisers said in a statement.
Fears of Islamist violence have
been rising in Bangladesh after
four atheist bloggers were murdered this year, also by machetewielding attackers.
A banner bearing the image of Faisal Dipan hangs from the front of
closed shops at the Aziz Market in Dhakas Shahbagh district yesterday.
Bangladesh has also been
rocked by the recent murders of
an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer, while Dhakas main
Shiite shrine was bombed last
month, killing two people and
wounding dozens.
After staging protests on Saturday night and Sunday, secular
activists including hundreds of
teachers, writers and students
also resumed their rallies at Dhaka University, the nations main
secular bastion.
The murderers should be
caught as soon as possible. There
must be an end to this nightmare, publisher Farid Ahmed,
who received a death threat in
a text message on Sunday, told
AFP.
On Saturday, a gang of suspected Islamists armed with

machetes and cleavers hacked to
death Faisal Aren Dipan in his
publishing office in the capital.
Two secular bloggers and another publisher were also badly
injured in a similar and separate
attack hours earlier, leaving them
lying in pools of blood in their
Dhaka office.
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the attacks, calling the victims atheists and
blasphemers.
The group, which claims to be
behind the previous killings, also
threatened to murder more writers and publishers who defamed
Islam.
Police say they are sceptical of

the AQIS claim of responsibility and suspect a banned local
Islamist outt is behind all of
them.
Both of the publishers targeted
on Saturday put out books by Avijit Roy, a US-born atheist writer
of Bangladeshi origin, who was
hacked to death in February.
Slain publisher Faisal Aren
Dipans wife and injured publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury
Tutul led two cases yesterday
against some unidentied people, though Dipans father earlier
said they would not le any case
in this connection.
Dipans wife Dr Razia Rahman
led the case with Shahbagh Police Station in the afternoon, said
its officer-in-charge (OC) AB
Siddique.
After the murder, Dipans father proffesor Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque of Dhaka University
said he would not le any case
over the killing of his son.
Many people have asked
me to file a case over my sons
murder but I know I wont
get justice. Ill probably file a
case as a rule, and that doesnt
mean I depend on itI want
good sense to prevail, he said
after Dipans namaz-e-janaza
on Sunday.
Meanwhile, publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul

lodged a case for attempted murder with police over Saturdays
attack in his office that left him
and two others injured.
A relative of Tutul submitted
the case document on behalf of
him to a police station yesterday
afternoon, deputy commissioner
Biplob Kumar Sarkar told newsmen.
Unknown assailants barged
into the office of publishing
house Suddhaswar at around
2:30pm on Saturday.
They hacked Tutul, writer Ranadipam Basu and blogger Tarek
Rahim with sharp weapons.
The three are being treated at
Dhaka Medical College Hospital
(DMCH).
DMCH authorities said Tutul
and Basu were improving, but
Tareks was critical.
Barely three hours after the
attack, publisher Faisal Aren
Dipan was found murdered at
Shahbagh. Dipan, who ran publishing house Jagriti Prokashony, was hacked to death in his ofce at the Aziz Supermarket a
hub for writers and publishers in
Dhaka.
Police are yet to make any
breakthrough but suspect militant outt Ansar Bangla.
urning down the plea

led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)
acting secretary general Mirza
Fakhrul Islam Alamgir seeking extension of the deadline for his surrender in three
cases for street violence, the
supreme court (SC) yesterday asked him to surrender to
lower court today.
A four-member bench,
headed by Chief Justice SK
Sinha, passed the order rejecting the petition, said additional attorney general Murad
Reza.
As the deadline for Fakhruls surrender expired yesterday, the SC asked Fakhrul
to surrender to lower court
today.
The SC also asked the high
court to settle the rule asking
to explain within two weeks
why Fakhrul should not be
granted permanent bail in the
three cases, added the additional attorney general.
Earlier on October 28, the
BNP leader led a petition
before the SC seeking further
extension of deadline for his
surrender.
Fakhruls counsel Sagir
Hossain Leon submitted the
petition before the SC seeking
extension of the deadline by
eight weeks.
Earlier, the SC extended the
deadline for Mirza Fakhruls
surrender twice.
On October 6, the SC extended until November 2 its
order asking the BNP acting
secretary general to surrender
before the lower court in three
cases.
Following a petition, the
supreme court rst extended
for six weeks its earlier order
on August 31 asking the BNP
leader to surrender.
The SC on July 13 upheld the
high court bail for six weeks to
the BNP acting secretary general in the three cases related
to street violence considering
his need for advanced treatment abroad.
The SC came up with the
order after receiving a report
from a ve-member medical team, comprising two
surgeons of vascular surgery,
a respiratory medicine specialist, a medicine specialist

and a cardiologist, formed by
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib
Medical University Hospital
(BSMMU) authorities on the
health condition of the BNP
leader.
The court also asked Fakhrul to surrender to the trial
court before expiry of the bail.
Six months after his arrest,
the BNP leader who has been
facing a number of cases relating to political violence,
was released from jail on July
14.
On January 6, plainclothes
police picked up Fakhrul as he
came out of the National Press
Club after nearly 25 hours of
stay there following BNPs announcement to observe January-5 as Democracy Death
Day, protesting the 10th parliamentary polls held on that
day.
Meanwhile, a court in Jessore district town sent six
leaders of BNP, including
Jessore municipality mayor
Maruful Islam, to jail after rejecting their bail petitions in a
case for subversive activities.
The BNP leaders are Jessore
municipality mayor and the
district unit BNP president
Maruful Islam, its vice-president Raqur Rahman Totan,
organising secretary Delawar
Hossain Khokan, joint-secretary Abdus Salam, member Aninda Islam Amit, who
is also son of BNP standing
committee member Tariqul
Islam, and councilor of ward
no 5 Azizul Kamal Sweet.
Senior judicial magistrate
Abu Ibrahim passed the order
when the BNP leaders appeared before the court seeking bail in the case.
Earlier on Sunday evening,
Abdur Rahman Sardar, a prosecution witness in the war
crimes case against convicted
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Sobhan came under attack
at Shahapur Masjid Para in
Ishwardi over a land dispute.
The attack on Rahman is
linked to an altercation he
had with local Awami League
leader Sadek Ali over land, according to police.
Bishu, a supporter of Sadek
Ali, hacked Rahman with a
sharp weapon, leaving him
injured.
Maldivian wanted
for bomb plot held
AFP
Colombo
ri Lankan authorities
have arrested a Maldivian man wanted in connection with an alleged bomb
blast aboard president Abdulla Yameens speed boat and
forced him to return home, an
immigration official said yesterday.
The man, identied as
Ahmed Ashraf, was arrested
on Sunday night in a Colombo suburb after the Maldives
asked Sri Lanka to cancel his
visa, immigration department
spokesman Lakshman de Zoysa told AFP.
De Zoysa said he was not
deported but instead handed
over to the Maldivian authorities in Sri Lanka for repatriation.
We acted on a request from
the Maldivian High Commission, he said.
As he no longer had a valid
visa he was asked to go back.
He went this morning. His
ticket was arranged by the
high commission.
Ashraf is reportedly a close
associate of the countrys vice
president Ahmed Adeeb who
was arrested last month over
an alleged plot to kill Yameen,
fuelling fears of fresh turmoil
on the honeymoon islands
wracked by political power
struggles.
President Yameen was unharmed in an explosion on his

speedboat on September 28
that slightly injured his wife
and was described by authorities as an attempt on the leaders life.
Media reports in the Maldives said Ashraf, one of eight
suspects wanted by the Maldives in connection with the
blast, was arrested on arrival
and sent to a detention centre
for interrogation.
President Yameen ordered
a major shake-up of his security following the explosion
and sacked several of his ministers, although it emerged
over the weekend that an FBI
report found no evidence of a
bomb blast.
Maldivian home minister
Umar Naseer said on Sunday
that eight suspects had ed
the country and gone into hiding.
The Maldives has faced
tough international criticism over the jailing in March
of its rst democratically
elected leader Mohamed
Nasheed, after a rushed trial
which the UN said was seriously awed.
Yameen, who came to power in November 2013 following
a controversial election, faces
international censure over his
crackdown on supporters of
opposition leader Nasheed
and other opponents of his
regime.
26
Gulf Times
COMMENT
Chairman: Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah
Editor-in-Chief : Darwish S Ahmed
Production Editor: C P Ravindran
P.O.Box 2888
Doha, Qatar
editor@gulf-times.com
Telephone 44350478 (news),
44466404 (sport), 44466636 (home delivery)
Fax 44350474
GULF TIMES
England 2015: A
true World Cup
in every sense
The sport of rugby union has just unlocked the
door to a brave new world. Predictions that sides like
Japan would be attened by proper nations and that
there would be a surfeit of dull, second-rate games
in half-empty football stadia were proved gloriously
and thrillingly wrong, even before New Zealand
defeated Australia in Saturdays throbbing nale at
Twickenham.
Heres a statistic to reinforce the sense of a global
game going places. The average attendance at the
football World Cup in Brazil in 2014, over 64 matches,
was 53,592. At its rugby equivalent, supposedly a much
poorer relation, the gure was remarkably similar:
51,621 over 48 games.
There were 2.47mn tickets sold, backed up by record
TV audiences with Olympic recognition looming for
rugby sevens next year. RWC 2019 in Japan will bring
further expansion.
But do not simply judge 2015 on size or scale alone.
Instead, cling to the sights and sounds of the past
month and a half: thousands of Argentina fans turning
Twickenham into a suburb of Buenos Aires, the
unforgettable Brave Blossoms of Brighton, Namibians
and Georgians being roared on in Exeter. The best
World Cups offer a kaleidoscope of images and this
brilliantly-staged
oval-ball extravaganza
outdid anything the
game has seen. The
2015 tournament was
certainly not dened by
Englands premature
exit.
Instead it will be
remembered for the
rare excellence of the
rugby, not least when
the All Blacks were
playing. New Zealand
have become the rst
side in history to defend their world title, offering a
tting farewell to stalwarts such as Richie McCaw and
Dan Carter. To be standing where we are having won
back-to-back World Cups is such a unique and special
feeling, said Carter, who is ending his international
career after 112 Tests and moving to Paris to play for
Racing 92.
Sift through a few more mental snapshots complete strangers crossing the street to congratulate
Japanese families on their teams stunning win over
South Africa, teenage girls working on their lineout throwing in the fan-zone on Brighton beach,
90,000 people watching Ireland vs Romania at
Wembley, Diego Maradona going bananas - and the
inconceivable suddenly seems feasible. Could rugby
union at last full its mass-market potential and make
even football pause for thought? Give it 20 years and
the likes of Japan and USA will be pushing harder still.
If - or rather when - that happens, 2015 will
have been a signicant catalyst. Never mind the
commercial strides or the remarkable weather, it has
been a game changer. There are increasing signs rugby
will not be dominated indenitely by the same familiar
names and the gap between supposed tier one and tier
two nations is narrowing all the time.
It all augurs well for the games future.
The tournament
has not been
defined by
Englands
premature
exit but will be
remembered for
the excellence of
the games
To Advertise
advr@gulf-times.com
Display
Telephone 44466621 Fax 44418811
Classified
Telephone 44466609 Fax 44418811
Subscription
circulation@gulf-times.com
2014 Gulf Times. All rights reserved
The world must step up

efforts to end Syrian crisis
In enabling a peace deal, a
coalition of countries that
are not yet directly involved
in the Syrian crisis could be
very helpful
By Anne-Marie Slaughter
Abu Dhabi
global security crisis of

historic proportions is
raging in the Middle East,
and spreading by the day, as
millions of refugees ee Syria and Iraq.
The crisis is now affecting
not just all of Syrias immediate
neighbours, straining their resources
and exacerbating social and ethnic
tensions; it now directly involves all
of the current permanent members of
the Security Council except China.
It is time for all would-be
permanent members of the UN
Security Council namely, Germany,
India, Japan, Brazil and Egypt to
step up.
The desire for a political settlement
that could end the Syrian civil
war is palpable; but just what that
settlement would look like remains
open to debate or to further conict.
Indeed, Russia and the US are
circling each other like boxers
before the contest actually begins,
supporting different factions and
trying to ensure that their allies in the
multi-sided conict are advancing, or
at least holding ground.
The need for broad co-operation
and the support of the entire UN
Security Council is apparent. That
is why US Secretary of State John
Kerry is talking to the Russians,
the Saudis and the Turks to build
support for more international
efforts. And the UN and Arab
Leagues special envoy to Syria,
Staffan de Mistura, has created a

set of working groups, chaired by
Europeans, to create a framework
for concrete talks between Syrias
government and opposition.
In enabling a peace deal, a coalition
of countries that are not yet directly
involved in the crisis could be very
helpful. Such a coalition involving,
say, Germany, India, Japan, Brazil and
Egypt could increase the pressure
on President Bashar al-Assad to
negotiate by convincing Russian
President Vladimir Putin that the
world is watching his deal-making
efforts closely and that his prestige is
on the line.
Moreover, coalition members could
convince other relevant regional
players to push for a lasting peace.
Germany, for example, already
recognises that the only long-term
solution to Europes refugee inux lies
in eliminating the need to ee, and has
begun to make some moves.
German Foreign Minister FrankWalter Steinmeier travelled to Turkey
in September to help broker a deal
on keeping refugees in Turkey, in
exchange for restarting talks on
Turkish accession to the European
Union. A leading German foreign
policy expert, Volker Perthes, is
chairing one of de Misturas working
groups.
The other countries have yet to take
action. But they, too, have plenty of
motivation and plenty to offer.
India as well as Pakistan has a
great deal to gain from strengthening
Southwest Asian trade, energy, and
investment ties. Since the signing of
the Iran nuclear deal, India has been
contemplating renewing the plan for
an Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline,
with the participation of China and
Russia. But that will be impossible
without a settlement in Syria and a
decision by Iran to stop supporting
Hezbollah.
India has a strong relationship

with Iran, underpinned by longstanding cultural, social, political
and economic ties, with India now
funding an overhaul of the Iranian port
of Chabahar, which will give it direct
access to Afghanistan. This places
India in a strong position to push Iran
to put pressure on Assad. Likewise,
India can leverage its relationship with
Russia it remains a major importer
of Russian arms to help drive
progress.
Japans potential contribution
also involves Iran, with which Japan
has lately been pursuing a closer
relationship not least because Japan
needs Iranian oil and gas.
Earlier this month in Tehran, the
Japanese and Iranian foreign ministers
agreed to begin negotiations on a
bilateral investment treaty. Japan also
wants to speed up implementation
of the Iran nuclear deal, so that it
can take advantage of the business
opportunities that will result when
economic sanctions on the Islamic
Republic are lifted.
But if Iran is truly to rejoin the
international community, it must play
a constructive role in its region. Japan,
which now aspires to enhance its own
role on the world stage, must not shy
away from making that clear.
A bonus here is that Japanese and
Indian interest in the Syrian peace
process could spur China to play an
active role in reaching, rather than
blocking, a solution.
Brazil, despite confronting plenty of
domestic problems right now, is also
in a position to help. Not only does it
have substantial ties with Russia; it
is also linked to Turkey, exemplied
by the two countries 2010 effort to
broker a deal with Iran over its nuclear
programme.
Moreover, in 2011, Brazil put
forward a concept paper at the UN
outlining how countries seeking to
implement the responsibility to

protect doctrine should behave.
With the Syrian government
through its murder of tens of
thousands of civilians with barrel
bombs and poison gas having
more than fulfilled the criteria
for triggering the international
communitys obligation to intervene,
Brazil could suggest what an
intervention that reflected the
principle of responsibility while
protecting might look like.
Finally, Egypt a perennial
candidate for a permanent or rotating
African seat in a reformed Security
Council has important relationships
throughout the region, particularly
with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf
countries that are supporting some
Syrian opposition groups.
The government of Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,
who has emphasised the need for a
comprehensive political settlement,
is deeply concerned about the Islamic
State. Egyptian diplomats are thus
excellent candidates to exert pressure
for compromise.
Many of these countries
governments might say that the Syrian
conict is too far away to affect them
directly. But global leadership does not
simply mean enjoying the prestige that
accompanies presumed power.
The UN Charter requires countries
to use their power to identify any
threat to the peace, breach of the
peace, or act of aggression, and to
decide which measures must be taken
to maintain or restore international
peace and security.
The Syrian crisis is a major threat
to the peace, and the world must
address it together.- Project Syndicate
zAnne-Marie Slaughter is the
president and CEO of New America.
Her latest book is Unnished Business:
Women Men Work Family.
A Syrian man riding a bike past damaged buildings in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus. The desire for a political settlement that could end
the Syrian civil war is palpable; but just what that settlement would look like remains open to debate or to further conflict.
The fraught politics of the TPP

By Koichi Hamada
Tokyo
ast month, 12 countries on

both sides of the Pacic
nalised the historic TransPacic Partnership trade
agreement. The scope of the TPP is
vast. If ratied and implemented,
it will have a monumental impact
on trade and capital ows along the
Pacic Rim.
Indeed, it will contribute to the ongoing
transformation of the international order.
Unfortunately, whether this will happen
remains uncertain.
The economics of trade and nance
that form the TPPs foundations are
rather simple, and have been known
since the British political economist
David Ricardo described them in the
nineteenth century.
By enabling countries to make
the most of their comparative
advantages, the liberalisation of
trade and investment provides net
economic benets, although it may
hurt particular groups that previously
beneted from tariff protections.
But the politics of trade
liberalisation that is, the way in
which countries proceed to accept free
trade is much more complex, largely
because of those particular groups it
hurts. For them, the overall economic
benets of trade liberalisation matter
little, if their own narrow interests are
being undercut.
Even if these groups are relatively
small, the discipline and unity with
which they ght trade liberalisation
can amplify their political inuence

considerably especially if a powerful
political gure takes up their cause.
That is what is now happening in the
US. Former secretary of state Hillary
Clinton undoubtedly understands the
economics of the TPP, which she once
called the gold standard in trade
agreements. But now that she is on the
presidential campaign trail, she has
changed her tune.
With the TPP, the US

is catching a big fish
with small bait
The reason is apparent: she has
judged that she cannot afford to
lose the support of American trade
unions such as the United Automobile
Workers, whose members fear a
reduction in tariffs on car and trucks.
This shift may make sense
politically, but it is abysmal
economics. In reality, the TPP
is a great bargain for the US.
The concessions it contains on
manufactured products like
automobiles are much smaller than
those on, say, agricultural products,
which will involve profound sacrices
from other TPP countries, such as
Japan. After all, existing tariff levels on
manufactured goods are already much
lower than those on agriculture or
dairy products.
In short, with the TPP, the US is
catching a big sh with small bait. But
the increased trade and investment
ows brought about by the TPPs
ratication and implementation will

benet even the countries that must
make larger sacrices.
Japan, for example, will nd that
the TPP enhances Abenomics,
the three-pronged economicrevitalisation strategy introduced by
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2012.
The third component, or arrow,
of Abenomics structural reforms
aims to restore growth by raising
productivity. But increasing efficiency
in a wide variety of sectors, as Japan
must do, can be a long, difficult, and
piecemeal process, as it involves
the upgrading of virtually every
technology and process.
By connecting Japans industries
more closely with those of other
countries, the TPP can accelerate this
process considerably. Moreover, it
can spur faster administrative reform.
Simply put, the TPP will amount to a
powerful tailwind for Abenomics.
It should be noted that liberalisation
does involve some economic tradeoffs,
as protection can, in some areas, serve
an important purpose.
As the economist Jagdish Bhagwati
points out, maintaining increased
protections for, say, intellectual
property may encourage research
and innovation. At the same time,
however, excessive IP protections
can deter the proliferation of existing
knowledge and the development of
high-tech products.
In the case of pharmaceuticals, for
example, this tradeoff can be difficult
to navigate. Nonetheless, Bhagwati
maintains, when it comes to overall trade
and capital movements, freer is better.
Given all of this, one hopes that

opposition from political gures
like Clinton amounts to naught
an entirely plausible outcome,
in Clintons case, because the
TPP should be enacted before the
presidential election in November
2016.
It seems that involving so many
sectors in so many countries actually
made it easier to overcome resistance,
as it diffused the opposition and
prevented any single specic interest
from getting the upper hand.
Of course, that does not mean that
the negotiations were easy. On the
contrary, trade representatives had
to display impressive endurance and
patience for more than ve years, for
some countries.
Failure to ratify the TPP in all
12 countries would be a major
disappointment, not just because of
the tremendous amount of effort that
has gone into it, but also because of
the vast economic benets it would
bring to all countries involved.
In Japan, as long as most of the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party stands rm in
supporting the TPP, it should be ratied.
But the situation in the US Congress
is more dubious. One hopes that
Americas leaders do not miss a golden
opportunity to give US businesses and
thus the US economy a signicant
boost.- Project Syndicate
zKoichi Hamada, special economic
adviser to Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, is professor emeritus of
economics at Yale University and at the
University of Tokyo.
Gulf Times
27
COMMENT
Beware the dark side of Facebook

By Christine M Flowers
Philadelphia Daily News/TNS
acebook is a little bit like Lord

of the Flies, without the exotic
island locale. Its a place where
people can gang up on you in a
virtual lynch mob if you stray from the
communal orthodoxy, and they use
the like button as rope.
You have two choices: be shamed
into submission or slink away on a
life raft. Mark Zuckerbergs lucrative
social experiment started as a way
for college students to meet, aka
hook up.
But when their parents and
grandparents staged an unexpected
coup detat, lling the screen with
pictures of meals theyd eaten at
Olive Garden, the kids moved on and
the adults (I use that term loosely)
were unleashed. All of the simmering
resentments that post-dated Bush
vs Gore found fertile ground and
multiplied.
I say this as someone who
enjoys social media and has gotten
inspiration, education and consolation
from people Ive never met. More
importantly, its enabled me to
reconnect with old friends whod
been lost to time, distance and the
inevitable obligations of modern life.
But there is a dark side to the
experiment, and I see it whenever I
venture onto the pages of people who
- lets just say - dont share all of my
beliefs. The page owners are rarely
the problem, because in most cases
they are good and cherished friends
with whom Ive reached a political and
philosophical armistice, usually over
food.
No, the problem are the friends
of my friends, people who would
never have shown up on my radar
screen if we didnt share that valued
point of human contact in our mutual
Facebook buddy. They often say that
friends are the family we choose. Well

if thats the case, these one-degreeof-separation characters are the
in-laws-you-didnt-choose, but who
you tolerate about as graciously as Job
tolerated his boil.
I encountered just such a boil, er,
person when my dear friend, who shall
remain nameless so as to spare her any
agida, posted a comment about Ben
Carson. It wasnt the most attering
comment, something along the lines
of you seriously must be a loon if
youre going to vote for this guy, but
there was an underlying current of
respect for those who actually could
vote for him. In fact, the posting
ended with a solicitation for opposing
viewpoints. That is the sign of an
honest intellect, one that welcomes
challenges.
So, being the type of person
who exited the birth canal with an
opposing viewpoint on the delivery
method employed by my mothers
OBGYN, I volunteered my opinion
that Carson was a man of great
character, starting out with the
hardly nuanced I love him! One
of the reasons had to do with a
topic that causes most feminists to
pull out their embroidered hankies
and hyperventilate like latter-day
Dickensians: abortion.
This past week, Carson compared
abortion to slavery. It wasnt a new
concept. Anyone whos been listening
to conservative black clergy over
the past few decades has heard the
same analogy, albeit from the pulpit
and not the debate podium. But here
was another chance for progressives
to savage a man who is their worst
nightmare: a black conservative
professional whose appeal transcends
the divides of colour and class.
Here, they seized on yet another
opportunity to paint this renowned
neurosurgeon as the father of all
whack jobs because he had the
audacity to compare a slaveholders
This person apparently thinks that

insulting minorities and women who
stray off of the liberal reservation is a
blow for social justice.
To make his point, he raised
that red herring of ... drumroll ...
incest and rape. He said that anyone
who would force a woman to bear
and then raise her rapists baby is
inhuman. This is the part where I
sigh, and then yawn.
Having been in the pro-life
movement for a very long time, Im
used to that rape/incest diversionary
tactic. If they were smart, abortion
rights advocates wouldnt keep going
to that dried-up well, because its been
proven that the incidence of abortions
triggered by rape is statistically
insignicant.
According to a 1987 study by the
Guttmacher Institute, less than 1%
of women cited rape or incest as the
reason they needed an abortion.
Admittedly, this is an old study, but
even if that number has increased in
the last 30 years, it doesnt change
the fact that most abortions in this
country are elective, not therapeutic.
Carson knows that. So, apparently, did
my Facebook antagonist.
I dont expect everyone to hold
hands and sing Kumbaya. I didnt
do it last week when I savaged
Hillary Clinton in a column that
prompted one editor from Texas to
tell me I owed Chelsea an apology
for calling her the Arkansas virgin
birth. Political commentary isnt
pretty.
But the vicious nature of the attacks
against Ben Carson are worse than
anything Ive seen since Clarence
Thomas was cross-examined over a
can of Coke in 1991. Thank God Mark
Zuckerberg was only 7.
Presidential candidate Ben Carson: target of vicious comments.

proprietary interest in human chattel
with a pregnant womans refusal to
see the foetus she was carrying as
anything other than a mass of cells to
which she had sole title.
And if they were going to attack

Carson, it made sense to dehumanise
his supporters. When I suggested
that I deeply admired the man, even
though hed made some bizarre public
statements, one of these friends

of friends called me a sadist (after
rst calling me sick and then looking
through a thesaurus to better plumb
the lexicon of progressive misogyny.)
zChristine M Flowers is a lawyer and

columnist for the Philadelphia Daily
News. Readers may send her e-mail at
cowers1961@gmail.com
Weather report
Letters
Three-day forecast
TODAY
Genuine
concerns
Dear Sir,
Further to the letters Seating
confusion (Gulf Times, October
26) and Criticism for criticisms
sake(Gulf Times, November 1), which
was a response to the rst, I feel that
the concerns raised in the rst are
genuine and the arguments in the
second dont hold water.
The writer of the second letter,
RR, has obviously got it all wrong.
Dear RR, there is nothing wrong if
the organisers of a programme want
to reserve some seats for reasons
of their own. But let the organisers,
whoever they are, organise their
functions properly and with decorum.
It is improper and rude for a
volunteer (were you the one, RR?)
to raise her voice to those people
sitting in that particular row in front
of Sadique K P, the writer of the rst
letter. Where were you when they
came and had taken their seats?
The second matter raised in the rst
letter is even more serious: nding a
plastic piece in a drink bought from

one of the stalls approved by the
organisers. The organisers must look
into this matter and ensure that it
never happens in future. Somebody
can fall seriously ill if plastic pieces
in a drink are swallowed along with
the drink. There are official agencies
who could ban organisers to open food
stalls in such events.
I thank Sadique for bringing this
matter to attention by writing in
Gulf Times. I am sure the quiz show
organisers, the Indian Womens
Association (IWA) will investigate these
issues and take appropriate actions.
Bijan K Choudhury
13, Doha Paradise
Old Airport Area
Timely
reflections
Dear Sir,
I enjoyed reading the article How
to avoid time wasters (Gulf Times,
November 1). Indeed, we cannot afford
to waste our time as it is the most

precious thing in the world. Lost time
can never be recovered.
As the article points out the most
valuable thing one possesses is time.
That is why it should not be wasted.
We need relaxation, but we should
not rely on television solely for that.
TV shows should not dominate
our freed time. That means we are
addicted to them. It stops becoming a
relaxation then. It turns into a habit.
The same goes for mobile phone
use. These days, most people cant
live without them. They are key tools
in modern communication, true, but
again, we should not become slaves to
them.
For a balanced life we must nd time
to read good books and do physical
exercises. Physical activity is quite
important.
As we dont want others to encroach
upon our time, we too should not do
so to others. We must respect others
privacy.
We can save a lot of time by
planning our schedules properly.
High: 30 C
Low : 26 C
Strong wind and high seas
Please send us
your letters
WEDNESDAY
High: 33 C
Low : 25 C
By e-mail
editor@gulf-times.com
Fax 44350474
Or Post
Letters to the Editor
Gulf Times
P O Box 2888
Doha, Qatar
All letters, which are subject to editing, should have
the name of the writer, address and phone number.
The writers name and
address may be withheld
by request.
Sunny
THURSDAY
High: 33 C
Low : 25 C
Sunny
Fishermens forecast
OFFSHORE DOHA
Wind: NW-NE 12-22 KT
Waves: 4-7 Feet
INSHORE DOHA
Wind: NW-NE 08-18/20 KT
Waves: 1-3/4 Feet
Around the region
Abu Dhabi
Baghdad
Dubai
C Robinson
robin_son_ch@yahoo.co.in
Kuwait City
Manama
Muscat
Riyadh
Tehran
Weather
today
P Cloudy
Sunny
M Sunny
S Showers
Sunny
M Sunny
Sunny
M Sunny
Max/min
33/24
23/10
32/26
25/17
30/26
33/24
30/18
09/03
Weather
tomorrow
P Cloudy
Sunny
Sunny
M Sunny
Sunny
P Cloudy
Sunny
Sunny
Max/min
33/25
24/13
32/26
28/18
31/26
33/25
30/19
14/07
Weather
tomorrow
Sunny
P Cloudy
P Cloudy
M Cloudy
S T Storms
M Sunny
S T Storms
P Cloudy
P Cloudy
Sunny
P Cloudy
Sunny
Showers
P Cloudy
Cloudy
Sunny
Sunny
S Showers
Rain
Sunny
S T Storms
Rain
Clear
Max/min
21/12
26/18
36/26
07/02
24/17
30/18
31/24
29/22
26/21
16/11
33/25
33/24
14/11
33/24
09/06
31/20
20/13
17/11
23/18
19/06
33/26
21/17
20/11
Live issues
If your action plan not working, try simplifying it

By Ahmed al-Akber
Dubai
ome
marketing
and sales
plans work
extremely well. They
are understood by everyone involved,
implemented and generate results
quickly. Others dont generate such
results, and end up falling at on their
face.
Without execution, plans are only
as good as the paper they are written
on.
The next time you are faced with
this issue of poor execution, try
simplifying your plans to the point
where they are simple, not just for
you to understand, but for everyone
involved. Here are some ideas:
1) Have clarity. As always, have
absolute clarity on what you want to
achieve. Do not just do things because
they are simply on your list. Do them
because they generate signicant
results for the business. What main
goals must you achieve? Why do you
want to achieve them? Having clarity
on this will remind others of why they
are doing things.
2) Make a list. Write out
everything that will further those

objectives. By not holding back and
writing every idea you can think of,
you are getting everything down that
could be relevant to the objectives
youve identied. You also free up your
mind from idea overload which
can happen when you have lots of
ideas oating around in your head to
the point where you feel overwhelmed.
Dont let that happen!
3) Prioritise. Which ones will
actually make an impact? Which
ones, if you started taking action
on immediately, would result in
signicant improvement for the
business? Which ones will make an
impact in the longer term but need to
be started right away? Either delete or
delegate everything else outside these
two categories.
4) Allocate accountability. Make
sure its 100% clear who is doing what.
Use specic names of people for each
action and not team names. Ensure
each person understands why he or
she is doing it and agrees to do it. With
this kind of accountability assigned,
people feel like they are given an
individual goal to achieve, and may
feel more compelled to achieve it. No
one wants to let the rest of the team
down.
5) Assign deadlines. Deadlines are
Around the world
important to get people to think about

what it will take to accomplish their
goals. They push you to action and
help you to avoid procrastinating.
6) Communicate! Once its ready,
communicate the plan in every way
possible. Sending the plan out on
e-mail is ne, but its not enough.
Plans need to be visible and viewed
daily, so make sure the plans are up on
a board where everyone can see them.
The more places they can be seen, the
better.
7) Follow up. Assign a followup meeting to ensure that everyone
reports back their progress. If you lead
the team, check in with them every
so often in the run-up to the meeting
(for example every day or week) to see

how things are progressing, removing
obstacles along the way.
zAhmed al-Akber is the managing
director of ACK Solutions, a rm
that helps companies to improve
their marketing and sales results by
offering more effective ways attracting
customers and signicantly better
products and services. Ahmed has
worked internationally in marketing,
sales, and strategic planning at
companies such as the Coca-Cola
Company, Philip Morris International
and Dell. Questions or comments
can be sent to Ahmed on ahmed@
acksolutions.com
Athens
Beirut
Bangkok
Berlin
Cairo
Cape Town
Colombo
Dhaka
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jakarta
Karachi
London
Manila
Moscow
New Delhi
New York
Paris
Sao Paulo
Seoul
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo
Weather
today
M Sunny
Sunny
P Cloudy
Sunny
M Sunny
Sunny
S T Storms
P Cloudy
P Cloudy
Sunny
P Cloudy
Sunny
Cloudy
P Cloudy
Cloudy
M Sunny
Sunny
S Showers
T Storms
Sunny
T Storms
Showers
Cloudy
Max/min
22/12
26/19
33/26
11/-1
28/18
25/14
31/24
29/23
24/20
16/10
33/25
33/22
15/11
32/24
10/04
31/18
22/12
15/12
24/19
19/04
32/26
21/17
20/12
28
Gulf Times
QATAR
European
Jazz Fest
ends at
Katara
London taxis displaying Qatar logo parked out the venue of the World Travel
Market in London yesterday.
Ambassador al-Khater (fifth left) and al-Qurese (fourth left) with other dignitaries at the World Travel Market in London
yesterday.
QTA launches new website; unveils

Qatar Destination Brand at WTM
By Joseph Varghese
Staff Reporter
atar Tourism Authority

(QTA) launched its new
website along with a
new corporate Twitter account
at the World Travel Market
(WTM) 2015 which opened in
London yesterday.
Earlier, QTA also unveiled its
Qatar Destination Brand to a
global audience and highlighted
the programmes to position the
country as a premium tourist

destination.
Representatives
of several countries as well as
leading tour operators were
present on the occasion which
saw the QTA officials describing
the whole plan of action.
Rashed al-Qurese, QTAs
chief marketing and promotions officer said that the destination brand reects the nations persona, hopes, actions
and vision.
It takes inspiration from
multiple characteristics that
dene Qatar today: traditions,

heritage, hospitality, a love for
art, a dedication to excellence,
modernity, condence, and dynamism.
As part of the destination
branding, 50 London taxis displaying the new brand were
parked outside the Excel Exhibition Centre, the venue of
the WTM. Hundreds of visitors
were in attendance to watch the
eet of taxis emblazoned with
the brand logo Qatar.
Qatari ambassador to the UK,
Yusouf bin Ali al-Khater, visited

the Qatar pavilion and toured
the booths and interacted with
the delegates at the stands.
Later talking to the media, al- Khater said: QTAs
epitome which is focused on
emphasising Qatars identity
and presenting it to the international audience through well
constructed designs containing
all the elements of the heritage
of the country, is truly remarkable. He added that the importance shown to the culture
and heritage of the country has

proven that Qatar is still holding
onto its roots.
Following on from the launch
of the new brand, and in QTAs
quest for consistent communications across all platforms,
QTAs existing social accounts
on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube will promote
Qatar as a destination, celebrating the countrys warmth of
soul and spirit of vision.
The new QTA website promotes the destination, and is
accessible at the current web

address:www.qatartourism.
gov.qa. QTA has a new corporate Twitter account: @QTACorporate. This new account
will become QTAs platform
to provide updates on market
developments, achievements,
partnerships and opportunities
in Qatars tourism industry.
Around 26 entities from the
travel, tourism and hospitality
sector in Qatar are taking part
in the WTM that concludes on
Thursday.
he second Katara European Jazz Festival ended

at the Cultural Village on
Sunday.
The ve-day event, jointly
organised by Katara and the embassies of Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy,
Spain and Switzerland, was attended by a large number of jazz
lovers from different nationalities, according to a statement.
During the festival, some of the
nest representatives of European
jazz enthralled the audience in a
courtyard just behind Building 5.
The concluding evening of
the musical event was graced by
Dutch musician Michiel Borstlap. Present on the occasion was
Yvette Burghgraef-Van Eechoud,
ambassador of the Netherlands
in Qatar.
Borstlap is widely considered
as one of the nest pianists in
Europe. He has released over 20
albums in various settings and
line-ups on labels like Universal/Verve and found his own
record company, Gramercy Park.
On Friday, Albin Brun from
Switzerland
convened
the
evening and amused jazz lovers
with a unique blend of jazz, folk
and improvisation. Beside the
references to different musical
cultures, the closeness to his alpine traditions has always been
an important benchmark.
The event continued with the
Biel Ballester Trio of Spain and
jazz lovers enjoyed the personal
style based on the Django Reinhardt manouche heritage, at the
same time incorporating Mediterranean musical traditions.
The statement notes that the
event materialised thanks to the
partnership between Katara,
Qatar Music Academy, Qatar
Airways (official airline) and
Darwish Holding.
CHINA BID | Page 4
NEW MODELS | Page 15
1st passenger
plane rolls off
assembly line
Nissan profit
jumps 37%,
lifts outlook

GULF TIMES
BUSINESS
LEVERAGING PREDIX CLOUD : Page 3
RasGas first in
world to deploy
GEs APM solution
for LNG sector
Qatar SME focus gures prominent

at nance meeting in Kuala Lumpur
By Santhosh V Perumal
Business Reporter/ Kuala Lumpur
atar, which is fast expanding its nonhydrocarbon sector and especially

the small and medium enterprises
(SMEs), has found a prominent place in the
11th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF),
whose one of the key messages for the global
economy is to foster the SME ecosystem.
The 11th WIEF, which will begin in Kuala
Lumpur today, has the presence of key officials from the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC).
Former prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin
Jassin bin Jabor al-Thani is expected to attend.
The forum will be inaugurated by Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Sri Mohd Najib
Tun Abdul Razak.
In an apparent reference to overlooked
economies, which include Qatar, where
growth is now coming more from the non-
oil segment, Tun Musa Hitam, chairman of

WIEF Foundation, had earlier said there are
bright sparks, which remain hidden as the
world continues to focus on BRICS (Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa) and
the euro area.
Energy-rich Qatar, which has placed a renewed emphasis on developing its private
sector as a key to furthering the economic
growth, gured prominently at a press meet
to discuss the WIEF, themed Building Resilience for Equitable Growth.
If we just take a step back and look
around, we will see other high potential markets waiting to be discovered. These are opportunities for businesses to pursue and take
advantage, Hitam said.
On Qatar, which is ranked 14th among 140
countries in the World Economic Forums
Global Competitive Index, he said there has
been boom in sectors as nance, real estate
and hospitality in recent years.
In the wake of global economic slow-
down, it is important to close the deepening

income gap for economies to sustain their
growth, he said, adding the way forward is
to develop enabling ecosystem for the SMEs
as they form the backbone of most industries
in many countries.
This years WIEF, he said, has created
several platforms for SME business owners
and entrepreneurs to learn new skills, foster
cross-border collaborations and seek funding and business ideas.
The forum, which for the rst saw conrmed participation cross the 3,000 mark,
will cover cutting-edge topics including Islamic nance, halal industries, green technologies, education, sustainable living and
development, women and youth development, and the creative arts.
The WIEF is the largest international gathering of heads of government, economic experts and stakeholders to share experiences
and knowledge about Islamic economy since
its launch in 2004. Page 3
Senior Qatargas and JBOG officials at the ceremony marking the 1,000th ship loading in Ras Laffan.
JBOG facility marks

1,000th ship loading
in 1 year of operation
Q
atargas Jetty Boil-Off Gas

(JBOG) recovery facility recently achieved a major milestone marking its 1,000th loading on
to the LNG ship Rasheeda.
Since starting operations in October 2014, the JBOG facility has safely
recovered approximately 535,000
tonnes of liqueed natural gas (LNG),
which is enough to power as many as
300,000 homes.
JBOGs rst year of operation
has been very successful, with the
project team being able to operate
this unique facility from start up
with no major issues. The team has
successfully recovered the boil-off
gas from the ships, while at the same
time managing all the challenges to
operate the facility since the JBOG
plant uses one of the largest boiloff compressors ever built, which
operates in a wide range of condi-
tions and is a technical rst for the

manufactures. Favourably, all these
challenges have been overcome by
the team.
During one year of operation,
the JBOG facility has returned over
500,000 tonnes of gas to the ventures and reduced aring by around
90%. This is a signicant contribution from Qatargas towards realising
some of the major environmental objectives of the Qatar National Vision
2030 for reducing carbon emission
and demonstrating its commitment
to supply clean energy to the world,
safely and reliably.
As part of the Common Facilities
Projects at Ras Laffan Industrial City
(RLIC), the JBOG project is led and
operated by Qatargas on behalf of Qatar Petroleum and the LNG producers
in Qatar.
It is the biggest project of its kind
and one of the largest environmental

investments in the world, designed
to recover the gas ared during LNG
loading at the six LNG berths in Ras
Laffan Port.
A ceremony was organised last
week at Qatargas headquarters in
Ras Laffan Industrial City to celebrate this achievement, which
was attended by Sheikh Khalid bin
Abdulla al-Thani, chief operating
officer (Engineering & Ventures);
Ahmad Helal al-Mohannadi, chief
operating officer (Operations);
Randy Lee Stadler, chief safety,
environment & quality officer; Ahmad Ashkanani, onshore operations
manager; Alae Sadic al-Hassan,
engineering manager; Saleh Aseel,
operations technical support manager; Mohamed Brahmi, CLNG
Asset manager, and Michael Koo,
JBOG project manager.
Tun Musa Hitam, chairman of WIEF Foundation, addresses the pre-conference media meet in Kuala
Lumpur yesterday. Qatar, which has placed a renewed emphasis on developing its private sector as a key
to furthering the economic growth, figured prominently at a press meet on the WIEF.
Gulf Times
BUSINESS
Qatar regulatory changes present risks and opportunities for CFOs, says ICAEW
ecent legal changes in Qatar must be understood

by chief nancial officers
(CFOs) and nance professionals if businesses are going to be
able to address potential risks,
the Institute Of Chartered Accountants In England and Wales
(ICAEW) said.
The accountancy body partnered with international law
rm Pinsent Masons to host a
seminar about Qatars recent
regulatory changes for senior
nancial professionals. Held in
Doha recently, the seminar was
presented by senior partners of
Pinsent Masons who discussed
how updates to Qatari com-
Saudi hopes
to join MSCI
emerging
index by
mid-2017
Reuters
London
Saudi Arabias bourse hopes to
attract more foreign investors in
coming months and join MSCIs
index of emerging market
bourses by mid-2017, the chief
executive said yesterday.
In June, the Saudi stock exchange, the Tadawul, became
one of the last major emerging
markets to let foreigners buy
shares directly. Take up has
been slow, with qualified foreign
investors (QFIs) holding only
0.03% of shares listed on the
$433bn bourse.
We are looking essentially
for quality not quantity, but of
course the quantity helps, because what we want is diverse
investment behaviour, Adel
al-Ghamdi told Reuters on the
sidelines of a capital markets
day in London.
Registration requirements, the
settlement cycle and investors understanding the QFI
rules were some of the reasons
for the slow pick-up, said alGhamdi.
It is still very early days ...
and the beginning of the third
quarter was very slow ... I think
we will see a pick-up in the
fourth quarter, and also in the
new year, he said, adding he
aimed for foreign investors
to hold around 5% of shares
some time over the next 12
months.
Since June, nine QFI licences
have been granted to foreign
investors with more in the
pipeline, al-Ghamdi said, though
he declined to give any further
details.
BlackRock, Citigroup, HSBC
and Ashmore Group hold QFI
licences, which require investors to have at least $5bn of
assets under management and
a five-year investment track
record.
We are in regular discussions
with MSCI to see what it is that
we can do to help this process
(of joining the emerging market
index), al-Ghamdi told Reuters
on the sidelines of a capital
markets day in London, adding
he was also speaking to other
index providers.
mercial law, data privacy, employment law, arbitration, and

taxation are likely to impact
business.
It is no longer enough for
CFOs to focus purely on the
numbers. As senior business
managers they need a good understanding of the risks and
challenges facing their businesses and this includes legal
and regulatory changes, said
Michael Armstrong, FCA and
ICAEW regional director for the
Middle East Africa and South
Asia (Measa).
As Qatar races to further diversify and modernise its economy, leaders have recognised the
Armstrong: Senior business managers need a good understanding of

the risks and challenges facing their businesses.
need to develop the local legal
and regulatory landscape. In a
market where important contract disputes are not uncom-
mon, the law has evolved to make

arbitration more accessible.
Employees are now better
protected legally with regards
to salary payments and exibility of visa sponsorship arrangements. The new Commercial
Companies Law is designed to
make setting up a business easier, while developments in data
protection and taxation will require new reporting processes to
ensure companies comply.
Internationally, there will be
changes generated by the evolving global tax environment.
Companies in the Gulf looking to
invest overseas face a number of
new tax challenges, in particular
greater disclosure of information
to tax authorities. For example,
through the OECD Base Erosion
and Prot Shifting (BEPS) initia-
tive, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the

new Common Reporting standard. These are also creating additional obligations for reporting
locally.
While the legislative changes
in Qatar may give rise to some
new challenges, they are a positive development for businesses
operating in the Gulf state. Qatar
is competing for foreign investment with other countries in the
Gulf.
Anything that helps businesses establish themselves
more quickly and efficiently in
the country, or which helps to
provide certainty and clarity to
regulations in the local economy,

is benecial, said James Elwen,
partner and head of Qatar office
at Pinsent Masons.
Roger Phillips, director at Pinsent Masons, added: With the
increasing interest of the GCC
in nding ways to embrace the
information economy, and with
recognition of the value of data
and its protection, it is great
to see Qatar leading regionally
with the development and implementation of new laws and
regulations on cyber and data
privacy. Businesses planning for
change will be critical to manage
compliance and fully grasp the
opportunities.
Turkish markets surge on

return to single-party rule
Reuters
Istanbul
urkeys lira was on track for its

biggest one-day gain in seven
years on yesterday and stocks
were up 5% after an election restored
single-party rule, ending months of
uncertainty for investors.
The AK Party, founded by President
Tayyip Erdogan, won just short of 50%
of Sundays national vote, giving it
around 317 seats in the 550-seat parliament and a far higher margin of victory
than even party insiders had expected.
Uncertainty had plagued Turkeys
markets since the AKP lost its singleparty majority in a June election.
If (the AKP) take a mature, more
democratic approach and do what
needs to be done in terms of addressing
security and economic concerns and
allowing the central bank to be independent, it will be a very positive outcome, said Anders Faergemann, senior
sovereign portfolio manager at PineBridge Investments.
However, in the longer term the latest result may widen political divisions.
Political concerns have kept Turkish assets lagging their emerging market peers this year, with the lira down
around 20%.
But by 1525 GMT the currency was
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) gestures to supporters after casting
his ballot for Turkeys legislative election at a polling station in Istanbul on Sunday.
The AK Party, founded by President Tayyip Erdogan, won just short of 50% of
Sundays national vote, giving it around 317 seats in the 550-seat parliament and a
far higher margin of victory than even party insiders had expected.
heading for its biggest one-day gain
since November 2008, up more than
3% against the dollar at 2.8230.
The BIST 100 share index surged
5.4%, its biggest one-day jump in two
years.
Major stock gainers included con-
struction companies and real estate

investment trusts, expected to benet
from AKP economic stimulus, while
shares closely linked to Erdogans political rivals fell.
Longer term, this is inevitably going to raise fears about an even more
authoritarian, an even more economically populist, nationalistic Turkey,

said Nicholas Spiro, managing director
of Spiro Sovereign Strategy.
Banks rallied, though Moodys cautioned they still faced elevated risk
aversion toward emerging markets.
Bond yields fell, as did the price of insuring Turkish debt against default.
The election result could embolden
Erdogan and the AKP to extend policies
that have already divided the country,
said Inan Demir, chief economist at Finansbank, in a note.
These could include insistence
on executive presidency, unrelenting
pressure on opposing business and media groups, aggressive foreign policy,
hardliner stance regarding the Kurdish
issue and obsessive calls for lower interest rates.
Sundays election was called after
the AKP failed to nd a junior coalition
partner following the June vote. Erdogans critics said it was a gamble by the
combative leader to win back enough
support so the party can eventually
change the constitution and give him
greater presidential powers.
Seeking to win back nationalist support, the AKP government in recent
months struck against Kurdish militants, putting an end to a 2-1/2-year
ceasere and sparking almost daily violence in the largely Kurdish southeast.
Erdogan has also cracked down on

opposition media groups and companies linked to a prominent political ally-turned-foe, US-based Islamic cleric
Fethullah Gulen.
Shares in Dogan Holding - whose
media affiliates are being investigated
by prosecutors - tumbled 14%.
Shares in mining company Koza Ipek
and sister rm Koza Metal also fell. The
owner of both companies is close to
Gulen and the rms have been under
investigation over accusations of terrorism.
Political turmoil has caused Turkey
to lose the condence of foreign capital
and foreign investment, said Jonathan
Friedman, Turkey analyst at global risk
consultancy Stroz Friedberg. Unless
the new government nds a way to address the social tensions dividing the
country, that condence is unlikely to
come back.
One move that could partially reassure investors would be the inclusion of former Deputy Prime
Minister Ali Babacan, long seen as
a stabilising influence, in the AKPs
economic team. They will also watch
whether Erdogan honours the central
banks independence, said William
Jackson of Capital Economics in a
note. However, given developments
over the past few years, were not
holding our breath.
Saudi stocks stabilise after debt rating downgrade; Emaar lifts Dubai
Reuters
Dubai
audi Arabias stock market stabilised yesterday after a slide on

the previous day in response to
a downgrade of the kingdoms debt.
Emaar Properties lifted Dubais market
after reporting third-quarter earnings.
The Saudi equities index had
dropped 1.1% on Sunday after Standard
& Poors cut its rating of the kingdoms
sovereign debt, citing the damage to
state nances from low oil prices.
Yesterday, the impact of that news
faded and the index closed 0.3% higher
at 7,066 points, though it nished well
off the days high of 7,118 points.
Saudi Printing and Packaging Co

surged 9.8%. It has been rising sharply
in heavy trade since shortly after it reported earnings on October 20; ninemonth net prot jumped 49%, though
third-quarter prot dropped 10% on
year.
Saudi Research and Marketing
Group, publisher of pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat and one of the
Middle Easts largest media companies, jumped 7.2% to 20.15 riyals as it
resumed trading after being suspended
since last Wednesday.
On Sunday, the company said two
funds owned by NCB Capital had
bought over 50% of it but do not plan
any changes to the overall strategy of
the company and have no plans to buy
the rest of the outstanding shares.

Some industrial stocks hit in Sundays sell-off were bought back, with
industrial park developer Emaar Economic City adding 1.1%.
But City Cement tumbled 6.2% as
it went ex-dividend; it plans to pay a 1
riyal dividend for the rst three quarters of 2015.
Dubais index, which had fallen 2.1%
on Sunday as the Saudi downgrade hit
sentiment around the region, recovered
1.9% yesterday.
Emaar Properties, Dubais top real
estate developer, reported a 31% rise
in third-quarter net prot to 843mn
dirhams ($229.5mn). That came in below a forecast by EFG Hermes, which
had estimated 1.02bn dirhams, but
it was enough to boost Emaar shares

4.5% to 6.48 dirhams.
Naeem brokerage said in a note that
Emaars earnings were marginally
weaker than expected but citing its diversied property portfolio and recent
drops in its share price, kept a buy
on the stock with a target price of 14.61
dirhams.
Shipping rm Gulf Navigation
soared 10.4% after reporting a 123%
rise in nine-month net prot on an 11%
increase in revenues.
Abu Dhabis index was at though
Aldar Properties, the most heavily
traded stock, climbed 4.9%.
Qatar stocks edged down 0.3%, while
Kuwait was 0.1% higher. Kuwaits Burgan Bank added 1.3% after it reported a
41% rise in third-quarter net prot to

21.64mn dinars ($71.5mn).
Egypts index edged up 0.3% with
most of the 10 most heavily traded
stocks barely changed. President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi promised in a speech on
Sunday evening that there would be no
gas shortage problems for any factories
in Egypt by the end of November.
That would remove one of the biggest negative factors for industrial
stocks, but Sisi did not explain how the
government would achieve this, and
the markets lack of signicant reaction
to the speech suggested some investors
remained sceptical.
Elsewhere in the Gulf, Omans index
fell 0.2% to 5,939 points, while Bahrains index rose 0.8% to 1,261 points.
Egypts giant Zohr gas eld looking

to start production in 2017: Minister
Reuters
Cairo
gypt aims to start natural gas

production from its massive
offshore Zohr eld in 2017, a
year ahead of schedule, oil minister
Tarek El Molla said.
The Zohr gas eld, discovered by
Italys Eni, is the biggest in the Mediterranean, and with an estimated
30tn cubic feet of gas it is expected to
plug Egypts acute energy shortages
and save it billions of dollars in precious hard currency that would otherwise be spent on imports.
Were looking to expedite the
agreement with the partner and
speed up production. Hopefully we
will begin production from the discovery in 2017, El Molla said in an
interview at the Reuters Middle East
Investment Summit.
Eni has said it expects to invest between $6bn and $10bn to develop the
Zohr eld. Previously, officials had
said production was expected to start
in 2018.
Once an energy exporter, Egypt has

turned into a net importer because of
declining oil and gas production and
increasing consumption. It is trying
to speed up production at recent discoveries to ll its energy gap as soon
as possible.
In October British oil major BP
said it would begin gas production
at its north Alexandria concession in
early 2017 rather than mid-2017. That
should add up to 1.2bn cubic feet of
gas per day by late 2019.
El Molla, appointed oil minister in
September, succeeded Sherif Ismail
who launched a drive to lure back foreign energy investors driven away by
low prices and debt arrears.
In July the oil ministry raised the
price paid for gas from Eni to a maximum $5.88 for every million British
thermal units and a minimum of $4,
based on amounts produced, from
$2.65. It then cut a similar deal with
British Gas.
Ismails success in reinvigorating the sector, which is vital for
economic growth at a time when
energy shortages have crippled in-
dustrial production, helped propel

him to the post of prime minister in
September.
The total value of Egypts natural
gas projects, excluding Zohr, is now
$13.8bn, and El Molla said the Zohr
discovery had made additional investment much more likely.
Current projects underway will
add 2.4bn cubic feet to the countrys
daily gas production by 2019, said El
Molla. Current production is roughly
4.5bn cubic feet.
On the back of this, the stock
of foreign oil and gas investment
in Egypt is expected to increase to
$8.5bn during the current scal year
ending next June, from $7.5bn last
year, said El Molla.
Egypts drive to expedite foreign
investment in gas production comes
just as the country has become a top
growth market for imported liqueed
natural gas (LNG).
Egypt entered the LNG market
with a burst of imports this year after
leasing a oating storage and regasication unit (FSRU) from Norways
Hegh LNG for ve years in April.
Gulf Times
BUSINESS
QSE hosts 6th Annual IR Conference in Doha

T
he Qatar Stock Exchange

(QSE) has hosted the 6th
Annual IR Conference
in Doha in association with the
Middle East Investor Relations
Society (MEIRS).
The event, which targeted all
Qatari listed companies, featured
a wide spectrum of presentations
on a series of signicant global
best investor relations (IR) practices.
The programme topics aimed
to educate listed companies on
the importance of sound IR practices covering various topics
such as the latest trends and best
Al-Emadi: Vital role for transparency and disclosure.
practices on producing annual

reports, analyst days and earnings calls, use of digital media in
IR, governance from an IR perspective, and advancing IR to the
next level.
The workshop was aimed at
supporting the further development and practice of IR in Qatar,
in line with the increasing growth
and signicance of the QSE as an
international capital market, and
the growing importance of regional and international investors to Qatari companies.
QSE listing director Abdelaziz
al-Emadi said: We are very
pleased to host once again the

6th Annual IR Conference here
in Doha. The event is constructed to build on the groundwork of
prior events and is specicallydesigned this year to give our
listed companies the opportunity
to interact with industry experts
in the area of IR.
Transparency and disclosure
play a vital role in the development of a shareholding company
listed on the exchange. These
two concepts are important pillars for the efficient functioning
of a modern capital market. At
the QSE, we strive to deliver the
RasGas rst in world

to deploy GEs APM
solution for LNG sector
R
asGas has led the industry with the

rst global deployment of GEs Asset
Performance Management (APM)
solutions, powered by Predix, as a pilot,
created specically to meet the needs of
the LNG sector.
RasGas has become the rst global LNG
customer to leverage the Predix Cloud, the
worlds rst and only cloud-based solution
designed specically for industrial data
and analytics. This LNG-focused solution
is projected to extend the life of RasGas
assets. It will also lower operating costs
through greater efficiencies and optimise
product chain across RasGas assets.
Marking the effective integration of
big data and advanced analytics, the pathbreaking solution will support process optimisation across RasGas operations.
It will capture and analyse the unique
volume, velocity and variety of machine
data within a highly secure, industrialstrength cloud environment, leading to
higher reliability in operation and optimising resource use efficiency.
The application of APM solutions is expected to meet a current gap in the LNG industry, whereby raw data is currently isolated
and at different locations. The accumulated
information from several years of operation
in various locations can now be integrated
to strengthen predictive and corrective capabilities. Serving as a one-stop optimised
solution, it benets the LNG sector in scaling
up its efficiencies and productivity to meet
the future growth goals of RasGas.
Fahad Mohamed al-Khater, RasGas chief
operations officer said, At RasGas, we are
continuously exploring opportunities to
enhance our operational efficiency by leveraging the latest in technology innovation.
RasGas and GE officials at the agreement signing ceremony for GEs Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions. RasGas has
become the first global LNG customer to leverage GEs Predix Cloud, the worlds first and only cloud-based solution designed specifically
for industrial data and analytics.
The efficient utilisation of big data enables
us to monitor our resources effectively and
identify challenges even before their onset
to drive growth.
GE chief digital officer Bill Ruh said,
Powered by Predix, our APM solutions
help unlock the potential for productivity gains by our customers through highly
efficient production cycles. The introduction of our rst APM solution for the LNG
Al Rayan Investment
wins Qatar Equities
Manager award
Doha-based Al Rayan Investment (ARI) has won the
2015 Qatar Equities Manager of the Year award from
Global Investor/ISF, a Euromoney publication covering
the global asset management industry.
The magazine hosted the 2015 Middle East Capital
Markets Summit and Awards recently, gathering more
than 100 leaders from the regional asset management
industry. The award was judged by an independent
panel of experienced industry experts, who commended ARI on the strength of its track record and quality of
investor returns.
ARI chief investment officer Haithem Katerji said: We
are honoured to receive recognition from our peers
and are proud to be Qatars leading manager for equities. This award is a testimony to the strength of our
investment philosophy and processes. We thank all our
clients for their continued support.
The award is another milestone for ARI, which has
steadily grown to be one of the larger Islamic asset
managers in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena)
region, managing more than QR3.5bn in client investments. This includes Al Rayan GCC Fund, the largest
mutual fund based in Qatar.
Over the last three years until end-September 2015, the
fund rose 33% in sharp contrast to the S&P GCC Shariah index, which was down 4% over the same period.
The fund is open to individual and institutional investors of all nationalities living within or outside Qatar.
In early 2015, Mena Fund Manager magazine also
named ARI as Qatar Asset Manager of the Year, while
Kuala Lumpur-based Islamic Finance News named ARI
as Best Islamic Asset Management Company in the
Middle East.
Akber Khan, senior director of asset management at
ARI, said: Being one of the few asset managers in the
region with expertise in both listed equities and fixed
income enables us to seize opportunities across asset
classes for the benefit of all our investors. The team is
delighted to once again receive this acknowledgement
and remains committed to provide a good performance for our investors.
Mandated by Masraf Al Rayan, ARI is the fund manager
of the upcoming Shariah-compliant Qatar equity ETF,
which is currently under incorporation.
sector with RasGas, a global pioneer in the

LNG industry, demonstrates the organisations keen commitment to be a leader
in adopting next generation technologies
today. Beyond the technology gains, the
solution will also enhance the entire value
chain - promoting innovation and growth.
The collaboration between RasGas and
GE also fosters a culture of localised innovation by bringing automated systems and
platforms that will strengthen the skills

of Qatari technical professionals. GEs
global workforce will support the Qatari
professionals through knowledge sharing
sessions. It is also aligned with the Qatar
National Vision 2030 by promoting sustainable development through lower carbon dioxide emissions, further contributing to the cost optimisation initiatives of
RasGas.
Maybank Islamic
eyeing GCC for
sukuk expansion
Times on
the sidelines of a
luncheon
meeting
in Kuala
Lumpur
without
disclosing the
timeframe by
which it
plans to
By Santhosh V Perumal
Business Reporter/Kuala Lumpur
aybank Islamic, is one of the leading arrangers of sukuk in the

world, has viewed Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), including Qatar, as its
priority region in mobilising funds through
Shariah-principled bonds.
The GCC is denitely on our radar. It all
depends on what kind of opportunities are
available, said Nor Shahrizan Sulaiman,
deputy chief executive of Maybank Islamic,
which is wholly-owned by Maybank Group
with strong credit ratings from Standard &
Poors and Moodys.
The lender, a leading Islamic bank in
the Asean region with assets to the tune of
$42.65bn as on June 30, 2015, has a branch in
Bahrain and a 30% stake in Anfaal Capital in
Saudi Arabia.
Maybank is exploring opportunities in the
Middle East through its stake in the Saudi
Arabias Anfaal Capital.
Asked about its expansion plans, Sulaiman said it didnt mean necessarily enlarging
the physical presence, but striking more
deals, which can be done through its Bahrain
office.
Almost 90% of the Maybank Islamics
balance sheet is domestic and the remaining
10% is from overseas operations, he said.
Of the 10%, only 1.5% is from th e Middle
East, which we denitely want to scale up
and there is potential, Sulaiman told Gulf
Sulaiman: GCC on radar.

garner more share in the Gulf region.
Maybank Islamic is eyeing more funds
from the GCC, which has higher liquidity,
he said.
We are not going by country-specic
names but liquidity is abundant there despite the fall in oil prices, Sulaiman said,
when asked specically about Qatar.
Asked about the prospects in the GCC in
the wake of the 50% year-on-year fall in oil
prices; the official said he still nds potential in the economies and the abundance of
liquidity is a pointer towards that.
Maybank was one of the six-member consortium to arrange $750mn ve-year sukuk
for Dubai Islamic Bank early this year.
We are interested in the assets side rather
than plain funding, he said about the prospects in the GCC, where its operations are in
the wholesale banking.
necessary tools and the knowhow in setting up your IR strategies within your respective
companies and communicating
an effective strategy to the international investment community.
Al-Emadi pointed out that the
annual conference represents the
QSEs interest in developing the
efficiency of the capital market
in Qatar through the enhancement of disclosure and communication practices between
listed companies and their investor base through the adoption of
best practices in this area.
Qafco achieves ISO

50001:2011 certificate
Qatar Fertiliser Company (Qafco) has achieved the certificate
of conformance to ISO 50001:2011, the standard dedicated to
energy management systems, making it one of the first few
large-scale organisations in Qatar to accomplish such a feat.
Qafco said the certification is an endorsement of its efforts
to become a sector leader in energy efficiency, and it strives
to manage its resources proficiently as it undertakes several
energy efficiency and conservation measures.
The company was certified by ABS Quality Evaluations, a
leading world certification body that works with companies
to assure the performance of their business, systems, people,
and supply chains through management system certification,
verification, assessment, and training.
Over the years, Qafcos management system has enabled it to
become a corporate leader in meeting stakeholder expectations. With the ISO 50001:2011 certification, the company
continues to be industry pioneers in the region, Qafco said.
According to Qafco, it is a frontrunner in terms of implementing management systems. Qafcos quality management
system was certified to ISO 9002 in 1996.
Apart from the quality management system certification,
Qafco was certified to ISO 14001 (environment management system) in 1997 and OHSAS 18001 (occupational
health and safety management system) in 1999. Qafco
catering and clubs are HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical
Control Point) certified and its company laboratory got
ISO 17025 accreditation for the analytical methods used
for final product analysis of urea, ammonia, and UFC from
DAkkS, Germany.
In 2011, Qafco achieved management system certifications in
RC 14001 (the Responsible Care Technical Standard) and the
IFA Product Stewardship Certificate of Excellence.
Qafco said awareness and expertise in energy management
systems are in its initial days, which poses as a challenge to
achieve the certificate for an organisation that is more than 40
years old.
Qafco said the process started in 2014 when it initiated the
implementation of energy management system in accordance with ISO 50001:2011. A core, inter-departmental team
was formed and independent training was provided to team
members.
Today, the team members are certified by the International
Accredited Body (AIAO-BAR/BMQR) to carryout energy audits
and ISO 50001:2011 Energy Management System internal
audits.
Qafco said there are serious global energy challenges, including increasing costs, risks of supply disruptions, and growing
environmental impact, hence energy efficiency becomes very
important.
Energy efficiency is a strategic management issue for Qafco
and every management system comes with new commitments
and assurances. While Qafco has always believed in leading
the way with new and promising initiatives, the company has
always embraced new challenges, Qafco said.
Qafco said one of the challenges was carrying out a detailed
review of energy performances as an essential requirement of
the ISO 50001 for a 40-year old organisation.
Gulf Times
BUSINESS
BIG SUCCESS
JAPAN ECONOMY
ESTABLISHING FOOTHOLD
CREDIT RATING
ECONOMIC DATA
Japan Post IPO more than

5 times oversubscribed
BoJ blames rent, low public

fees for weak inflation
HSBC targets Chinese bond

market with securities JV
Moodys raises Indian

banking sector outlook
Indias Sept industries

output jumps 3.2%
Japans postal and financial firms attracted solid

bids of more than five times their planned initial
share offerings, Japans largest IPO in three
decades, two sources with knowledge of the
deal said yesterday. Japan Post Holdings, and its
two financial subsidiaries, Japan Post Insurance
and Japan Post Bank, will be listed tomorrow,
raising the government more than 1.4tn. A
success in the high-profile IPO is seen as vital
for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, not just to secure
cash but also to showcase the benefit of a shift to
investments from savings, which Abe has been
calling for since he took office in 2012.
Struggling to justify standing pat on monetary

policy even as inflation slides further away from its
2% target, the Bank of Japan is now blaming not
just oil costs but housing rent and public service
fees for keeping price growth subdued. Housing
rent and public service fees, such as water rates
and public transportation charges, tend to have
a downward price rigidity in Japan - or tend to
remain low regardless of improvements in the
economy, the BoJ said in a research paper. Prices
for most other goods and services tend to rise as
demand increases, reflecting improvements in the
economy, BoJ said.
Europes biggest lender HSBC is setting up a

majority-owned securities joint venture in China,
taking advantage of Chinese rules that favour
Hong Kong-established banks over foreign peers
in the worlds second biggest economy. HSBCs
aim is to establish a foothold in issuing bonds in
China, which the bank sees as an area of strong
future growth. HSBC said yesterday it would
own up to 51% of the proposed joint venture
with Chinas unlisted Shenzhen Qianhai Financial
Holdings Co. It opens up quite a significant
opportunity, mostly in the area of bonds, HSBC
chief executive Stuart Gulliver told reporters.
Moodys Investors Service yesterday upgraded

its outlook for Indias banking system to stable
from negative based on expectation of a
lesser growth in banks bad loans in future.
The American ratings agency had assigned a
negative outlook to the Indian banking system in
November 2011 due to their deteriorating asset
quality. The stable outlook on Indias banking
system over the next 12-18 months reflects our
expectation that the banks gradually improving
operating environment will result in a slower pace
of additions to loans problem, leading to more
stable impaired loan ratios, said Moodys.
A lead indicator of the monthly industrial

output grew by 3.2% in September from an
increase of 2.6% in August, official data showed
yesterday. The select factory output index had
risen by 2.6% in September, 2014. The data on
the select factory output was furnished by the
commerce and industry ministry for the eight
core industries (ECI), which comprises 38% of
the total weightage of items included in the
Index of Industrial Production (IIP). The indexs
cumulative growth from April to September
2015-16 stood at 2.3%, as compared to 5.1%
during April-September 2014-15.
Record Pakistan reserves mask

risks of needing more IMF aid
Bloomberg
Karachi
akistans record foreign-exchange reserves are masking economic weaknesses

that risk pushing the nation towards more
aid from the International Monetary Fund.
At least half of the countrys $20bn stockpile comprises debt and grants, almost all of
which have owed in since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office in May 2013. That money
could leave quickly as Pakistan begins repaying
the IMF in 2016 or if oil prices surge, leading to
another balance-ofpayments crisis.
This is borrowed money and not a reection
of a stable economy, said Yawar uz Zaman, vice
president for research at Karachi-based Shajar
Capital Pakistan Pvt. Finance costs will continue to grow in the years to come, which will
mean we will go for another loan from an international lender. Sharif won a $6.6bn loan from
the IMF soon after taking charge, triggering a
stock market rally that has put Pakistan among
the worlds best performers. Since then, however, hes struggled to attract more stable inows
as a shaky global economic recovery damps demand and makes investors wary.
The increase in reserves cant be attributed
to a single factor, central bank spokesman Abid
Qamar said in an e-mailed response on Thursday. However, the holdings robustness can be
gauged from the import cover, which has risen
to well above three months from less than two
in scal year 2013, and the reserves to external
debt-servicing ratio has risen to 3.5 from 1.7, he
said.
The record reserves will boost inows along
with recent investment agreements with China
and Sharifs focus on alleviating Pakistans energy crisis, Qamar said. He didnt directly address a question on the odds of another bailout.
Looming debt repayments in 2016 prompted
Pakistan to go ahead with a $500mn overseas
bond sale in September amid rising borrowing
costs even as Turkey, Iraq and Abu Dhabi pulled
back. It needs to gradually start paying back the
IMF, with repayments rising to $639mn in 2019.

Foreign direct investment in the year through
June 2015 was the lowest since 2012 with no
signs of a pick-up this year.
Exports in September fell by the most since
2009 and domestic investors have boosted bank
withdrawals by 38% from a year earlier.
The reserves build up in the last two years
is certainly of low quality, said Shamoon Tariq, Stockholm-based fund manager at Tundra
Fonder AB, which holds $155mn of Pakistani
shares. Low global oil prices should see Pakistan through the short-term, but balance-ofpayments risks will emerge in the months ahead
if Sharif is unable to substitute dollar nancing
with investments, he said.
Moodys Investors Service in May cited the
improvement in Pakistans reserves as an important sign that the threat of a debt default
is receding, and raised Pakistans credit rating
outlook to positive from stable. The nations
dollar bonds due 2024 have returned about 20%
since April 2014, while Bloombergs emergingmarket sovereign dollar bond index has earned
about 6%.
Pakistani stocks have returned almost 50%
under Sharif, the fth-best performance among
more than 90 indexes tracked by Bloomberg
during that period.
Pakistan has become a darling among investors and one of frontiers favourite turnaround stories, Alan Cameron, a London-based
economist at Exotix Partners, wrote in a September report. Even so, he said, looking beneath the surface, we see a few causes for concern.
Pakistans reserves are sufficient but not
healthy, and while theres no need to seek another IMF loan the government will probably go
for another three-year programme, said Ashfaque Hasan Khan, a former adviser to the nance ministry and dean of the School of Social
Sciences at the National University of Sciences
and Technology in Islamabad.
The stockpile covers about ve months of foreign-exchange payments more than the three
the IMF considers adequate.
At least half of Pakistans $20bn foreign exchange stockpile comprises debt and
grants, almost all of which have flowed in since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took
office in May 2013. That money could leave quickly as Pakistan begins repaying the
IMF in 2016 or if oil prices surge, leading to another balance-ofpayments crisis
The first C919 passenger jet made by the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac) is pulled out during a news conference next to a Chinese
national flag at the companys factory in Shanghai.
China rolls out rst

passenger aircraft
AFP
Beijing
hinas rst big passenger plane rolled

off the assembly line yesterday as the
Asian giant seeks the prestige of having
its own aviation sector, and to challenge foreign
giants Airbus and Boeing for market share.
Workers spent over a year putting together the C919, a narrow-body jet which
can seat 168 passengers, at the Commercial
Aircraft Corp of China (Comac) facility in
Shanghai.
For China, the plane represents at least
seven years of efforts in a state-mandated
drive to reduce dependence on European
consortium Airbus and Boeing of the US, and
even compete against them.
Chinas air transport industry cannot
completely rely on imports. A great nation
must have its own large commercial aircraft,
the countrys civil aviation chief Li Jiaxiang
told an audience of government and industry
officials.
A small truck towed the 39-metre long
plane painted white with a green tail out
of a cavernous building decorated with an
enormous Chinese ag into the sunlight as
project workers marched alongside, an AFP
journalist saw.
The roll out of the rst C919 aircraft marks
a signicant milestone in the development
of Chinas rst indigenous aircraft, Comac
chairman Jin Zhuanglong told the ceremony.

The aircraft, which has a range of up to 5,555
kilometres (3,444 miles), will make its rst
test ight in 2016, he said meaning that it
will miss the original deadline of this year.
The China Daily newspaper has reported
the maiden voyage could even be put back to
2017.
China has dreamed of building its own
civil aircraft since the 1970s when Jiang Qing,
leader Mao Zedongs wife and a member
of the notorious Gang of Four, personally
backed an attempt to do so. But the Y-10s
heavy weight made it impractical and only
three were ever made.
Although the C919 is made in China, foreign rms are playing key roles by supplying systems as well as the engines, which are
made by CFM International, a joint venture
between General Electric (GE) of the US and
Frances Safran.
Spending on the C919 has not been revealed. Last month, the Export-Import Bank
of China said it would provide state-owned
Comac with $7.9bn in nance for its aircraft
projects.
The company already has orders for 517 of
its C919 planes, according to a Comac statement, almost all of them from domestic buyers. Among foreign customers, Thailands
City Airways has ordered 10, according to an
announcement last month.
But it will take years for the C919 to be
delivered to customers, with the plane ex-
Nissan seeks closer

Renault alliance
Reuters
Yokohama, Japan
A model poses with Japanese auto giants Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo car at the Tokyo Motor Show yesterday.
The auto major said it now expected a full-year operating profit of 730bn ($6.1bn), up from a previous forecast of 675bn and
higher than the previous years 590bn.
Japans Nissan Motor Co is concerned about the French governments

growing influence over its partner Renault SA as it seeks to strengthen
their alliance, an executive at the Japanese automaker said yesterday.
The comments by chief competitive officer Hiroto Saikawa come
amid an escalating power struggle between Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of
both firms, and Renaults biggest shareholder, the French state, as he
tries to rebalance an alliance many investors say is too favourable to
Renault. Even though Renault owns a 43.4% stake in Nissan, Japans
second-largest automaker is the financially stronger partner, reporting
yesterday revenues for the first nine months of the year that dwarfed
its parent. Nissan holds a 15% stake in Renault.
The French state is having a greater say (in Renault) from the
standpoint of governance. This is a big issue, and from Nissans stance
this is a concern, Saikawa told reporters after Nissan reported its
second-quarter earnings.
He said Nissan had already spelled out its concerns to the French
government and that both companies wanted to strengthen the alliance, although he did not specify how they would do so.
Last week, Reuters reported that the Yokohama-based automaker
had drawn up proposals to buy a larger stake in Renault.
Nissan has outperformed Renault, which earns a significant portion
of its revenue from supplying engines and vehicles to its Japanese
affiliate. Yesterday, the automaker reported a higher-than-expected
second-quarter operating profit and raised its full-year forecast by 8%,
largely due to stronger sales in North America.
Nissan said it now expected a full-year operating profit of 730bn
($6.1bn), up from a previous forecast of 675bn and higher than the
previous years 590bn. For the first nine months, Nissan reported
revenue of 9.2tn ($76.37bn), dwarfing the 9.34bn ($10.30bn) revenue for the same period at Renault.
pected to enter service in 2019 at the earliest,

industry officials said. Theres a lot of work
to do still, said Briand Greer, president for
Asia-Pacic of Honeywell Aerospace, which
is supplying four key systems for the C919:
ight control, wheels and brakes, auxiliary
power units and navigation.
A lot of testing, a lot of ight testing, systems integration testing and of course all the
certication, he told AFP.
Comac has already developed a smaller regional jet, the ARJ, in a project which is years
behind schedule.
The 78-90 seat ARJ is still undergoing test
ights and lacks the crucial certication by
the US Federal Aviation Administration that
would enable it to y in US skies.
The Chinese company also plans a wide
body plane, the C929, in cooperation with
Russias United Aircraft Corp, and speculation is mounting China will create a new aero-engine entity to try to produce the powerful jets needed for large civil aircraft.
China is expected to add 6,330 new aircraft worth $950bn to its commercial eet by
2034, Boeing estimates.
The single-aisle C919 targets the lucrative
segment dominated by Boeings 737 and the
Airbus A320.
Research and manufacturing of a big
plane is complex, said Chinas Vice Premier
Ma Kai, the highest government leader attending the ceremony. There is still a long
way to go to commercial operation.
Reliance
Comm buys
Sistema unit
Reuters
Mumbai
ndian telecoms operator Reliance

Communications has agreed to buy
Russian conglomerate Sistemas Indian
mobile phone business with a share swap
that marks the rst major deal in seven
years in a crowded and indebted sector.
The agreement will see Sistema take
a 10% stake in billionaire Anil Ambanis
RCom, worth about $290mn at current
prices, in exchange for its operations.
RCom has also agreed to cover payments
for mobile airwaves to be allotted to Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkovs
Sistema, it said. RCom and Sistema did not
provide a value for the deal, but one person
with direct knowledge of negotiations put
the total at close to Rs45bn ($686mn).
Yesterdays announcement comes at a
critical time for a fast-growing but hugely
competitive industry: just weeks ahead of
the long-awaited launch of telecoms operations by Reliance Industries, the conglomerate controlled by Ambanis brother,
Mukesh Ambani. Reliance Industries
deep pockets are expected to pile pressure
on smaller players, most of them heavily in
debt.
Gulf Times
BUSINESS
HK-owned fund executives arrested for futures manipulation
Reuters
Shanghai
China has arrested two executives
from a Hong Kong-owned fund for
irregular futures trades involving
hundreds of millions of dollars, said
Xinhua news agency, the first public
arrests linked to a non-mainland fund
caught up in a crackdown on risky
trading.
The Ministry of Public Security said
the case was still under investigation
and that its plans to enlist foreign
authorities to net overseas suspects,
the official news agency reported,
citing a ministry statement on Sunday.

Chinese authorities have blamed
malicious trading in stock futures
for stoking share volatility that
saw bourses slide over 40% since
June. Investigations into market
manipulation have so far netted
journalists, senior executives in
brokerages and even securities
regulators.
The general manager of Jiangsubased Yishidun, Gao Yan, and senior
executive Liang Ze, were arrested for
allegedly buying and selling futures
in prices that deviated from market
standards and illegally made more
than 2bn yuan ($316mn), said the
Wary investors eye

Beijings back-door
entry into MSCI index
Reuters
Hong Kong
SCI will begin to add

overseas-listed Chinese shares to its
emerging market indexes this
month, drawing billions of dollars into such stocks, which
could eventually lead to mainland-listed companies finding
their way into global equity
portfolios.
The index providers decision in June not to include domestically listed China stocks,
known as A-shares, in its global
indexes, which are tracked by
equity funds holding trillions of
dollars, contributed to a sharp
sell-off, prompting Chinese
authorities to launch a heavyhanded rescue operation.
The inclusion of overseaslisted China shares, known as
American Depositary Receipts
(ADR), will be the first test of
foreign demand for greater exposure to China since its markets returned to an even keel
after a stormy summer.
Beijing wants to encourage
more overseas capital into the
mainlands financial markets,
but foreign investors took a dim
view of the market distortion
caused by the governmentdirected intervention. Chinese
shares listed on overseas markets, however, are not affected
by such measures.
Not only do they offer a
great way to get into China
businesses that are geared towards the consumption story,
(but also) being listed in the
US means they are prevented
from the kind of manipulation we have seen in the China
markets over the summer, said
Marc Chandler, global head of
FX strategy at Brown Brothers
Harriman.
Analysts estimate the index
rebalancing will trigger up to
$70bn in total flows into these
stocks over the next six months
and increase Chinas weight
in the MSCI Emerging Market
(MSCI EM) index, which only
includes Chinese stocks listed
in Hong Kong, to more than
26% from just over 23%.
Investors
welcomed
the
move, which will give them exposure to US-listed tech giants
like Alibaba and Baidu , which

are more geared to Chinas domestic consumption, which is
still rising even as other parts
of the economy, such as manufacturing, struggle.
These are new-economy,
creative companies, and investors will be excited about
that, in stark contrast to many
Chinese-listed shares that are
more traditional state-ownedenterprise-type firms, said
Arthur Kwong, head of Asia Pacific equities at fund manager
BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Hong Kong, who manages $1.8bn in assets.
About a tenth of the potential
$70bn investment would flow
in automatically via passive
funds that track the indexes,
but the rest depends on active
fund managers, who are more
circumspect after the events of
the summer and wary of Chinas slowing economy.
About $1.6tn tracks the MSCI
EM index, which is going to be
most affected by the ADR inclusion.
A lot of investors we speak
to are watching this development very closely from the
sidelines on what will be the
ultimate impact for investors,
said the head of global index
strategy and ETF research at a
European Bank in Hong Kong.
Some investors might buy
stocks that will be included in
anticipation of the extra demand, but Lan said he had not
seen any substantial flows so
far. MSCI will be the first index
compiler to make such a move,
and some market strategists say
it could be a significant step
towards the inclusion of mainland-listed stocks.
For the MSCI EM index, the
inclusion of Chinese ADRs will
reduce the weighting of stocks
listed in India, Taiwan and Korea, which can therefore expect
to see some selling.
The inclusion of ADRs in the
second most affected index,
the MSCI China Index, which
tracks Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies and Shanghai
and Shenzhen shares traded
in US and Hong Kong dollars,
will come largely at the expense
of financials, including ICBC,
Bank of China and China Construction Bank.
news agency. Jin Wenxian, a technical

supervisor at Chinese Shenzhenlocated firm China Fortune Futures,
was also arrested for allegedly helping
Yishidun cover up trade details,
using software without detection by
authorities and transferring funds,
Xinhua said.
Yishidun could not be reached for
comment. An official at China Fortune
Futures declined to comment.
Yishidun, a company jointly invested
by two Hong Kong-based firms set up
by foreign nationals Georgy Zarya and
Anton Murashov, was founded in 2012.
The firm allegedly used software to
buy up to 31 futures contracts in one
second, said Xinhua, adding from early

June to early July it made a net profit
of over 500mn yuan.
The companys trade activities
deteriorated the fluctuations in daily
trade prices. And affected then market
trade prices and normal trade orders,
said the statement, according to
Xinhua.
In a separate probe, Xu Xiang, general
manager of Shanghai-based company
Zexi Investment, and others at the
firm were under investigation for
suspected insider trading, said Xinhua,
citing a separate statement from the
Ministry of Public Security.
Zexi Investment was not immediately
sian stocks fell yesterday and oil prices

dropped as investors weighed fresh data
showing Chinas slowdown could be
deeper than previously thought, while the dollar extended losses against the yen and most
emerging currencies.
Tokyo led Asian stocks lower after data
showed Chinas manufacturing activity slowed
in October for the third straight month, fuelling worries about its economy which is a crucial driver of global growth.
Chinas Purchasing Managers Index (PMI),
tracking activity in the factory and workshop sector, was unchanged from the previous
month at 49.8, the state statistics office said on
Sunday.
News that banking giant HSBC saw its pretax prot rise 32% year-on-year in the thirdquarter failed to lift sentiment in Hong Kong
and Shanghai substantially.
After three straight days of gains last week,
oil prices also declined on the manufacturing
data.
derivatives without going through

formal investment channels, which
prevent them using strategies such as
short-selling.
High frequency trading is not illegal
in China but regulators have been
moving against coordinated stock
dumping as well as automated,
algorithm-driven trading seen as
aggravating market turbulence.
In August, Chinas markets regulator
froze a trading account linked to
Citadel Securities, a unit of the US
group that also owns hedge fund
Citadel LLC, for spoofing, a practice
that involves placing and then
cancelling orders, distorting prices.
Indian stocks drop

for sixth day; rupee
hits one-month low
Bloomberg
Mumbai
ndian stocks dropped for a sixth day,

its longest losing streak in about ve
months, as quarterly earnings at some
of the largest companies missed forecasts
and reports showed contraction in Chinas manufacturing sector.
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, the
most valuable drugmaker, fell to a fourweek low after saying growth in revenue
and prot will be adversely impacted in
the year ending in March. Larsen & Toubro, the top engineering company, decreased for a 10th day after paring its outlook on revenue growth last week. Bajaj
Auto was the worst performer on the S&P
BSE Sensex after sales slid in October.
The Sensex slid 0.4% to 26,559.15 at the
close, completing the longest stretch of
losses since June. While 72% of its members that posted results for the September
quarter have matched or beaten estimates,
versus 60% in June, the gauges prots
have risen just 2% over the previous quarter, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The indexs valuation climbed to 15.9
times projected 12-month earnings last
week, the most expensive since August.
Earnings are looking tired across
most sectors, while valuations in some
high-growth sectors like pharma and
consumers are looking stretched, Parag
Thakkar, the head of institutional sales
at HDFC Securities in Mumbai, said in an
interview to Bloomberg TV India. Plus,
there are concerns of a global slowdown
in spite of the liquidity infusion. The
stage isnt set yet for good times.
Sun Pharmaceutical declined 2.7% to
its lowest level since September 29. That
trimmed this years gain to 4.7%. Growth
in revenue and prot will be adversely
impacted due to temporary supply constraints at Halol plant and charges and
expenses of Ranbaxy integration, according to an exchange ling on Saturday.
Larsen & Toubro slid 1.6%, extending
its 10-day loss to 13.5%. Thats the longest losing streak since December 2014.
Hindalco Industries, an aluminium mak-
Traders at the Bombay Stock Exchange. The Sensex slid 0.4% to 26,559.15 at the close yesterday.
er, slid 3.7%, while Tata Steel, the largest
producer, tumbled 3.1%. The stocks were
among the worst performers on a gauge
of metal producers.
Bajaj Auto tumbled 4.6% after sales
tumbled 9% last month, while Indian
Overseas Bank plunged 11% after reporting a second-quarter loss on Saturday. Billionaire Anil Ambanis Reliance
Communications rallied 6.3%, the most
Asian shares, oil prices retreat

on weak Chinese factory data
AFP
Beijing
available for comment.

The slide in stocks since June has
prompted regulators to restrict
automated trading in commodities
futures and tighten other rules which
have winded the futures market.
Chinese regulators have asked foreign
and Chinese-owned brokerages in
Hong Kong and Singapore to hand
over stock trading records, while
some local fund managers have been
called in and asked to explain trading
strategies every two weeks.
Hundreds of foreign hedge funds and
traders are working in a regulatory
grey area in China, finding legal
ways to bet on Chinese stocks and
While you get the ebbs and ows from this

monthly data relative to expectations, the overall outlook is one of timid and sluggish activity
in the Chinese economy, said Chris Green, a
strategist at First NZ Capital.
Were not expecting a protracted downturn
but it will require further policy response from
the PBoC (Peoples Bank of China) to stabilise
the growth prole in China. The bigger thing
this week is the US jobs data, which could reinforce the prospects of a December move by
the Fed.
Investors also turned to prot-taking following Octobers global stocks surge, after
markets recovered from their worst quarter in
four years during July-September.
Japanese investors weighed Fridays Bank of
Japan decision to cut its growth forecasts and
push its ination timetable back for the worlds
number three economy, while holding the trigger on unleashing monetary stimulus.
Tokyo nished 2.10% lower, Sydney shed
1.41% and Wellington edged down 0.04% by
the close. Seoul closed up 0.28% despite a
stronger won and a drop in South Korean exports and Hong Kong ended 1.2% lower and
Shanghai closed down 1.70%.
The dollar remained under selling pressure

against the yen and emerging currencies in
the afternoon on Monday, after stagnant US
economic indicators bolstered the argument
against a December rate rise.
The US government said on Friday consumer
spending rose only by 0.1% in September, less
than expected and the slowest rate since January.
Tokyo has taken over the dollar-selling
sentiment from New York, said Minori Uchida, head of Tokyo global markets research at
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.
It is difficult to buy the dollar now as the recent economic gures are not strong enough to
justify a rate hike, Uchida told AFP.
The dollar bought 120.47 yen, from 120.67
yen on Friday in New York.
The euro was at $1.1036 and 132.94 yen from
$1.1003 and 132.77 yen in US trade.
In other Asian currency trade yesterday, Taiwans dollar gained 0.42% against the greenback, while the Singapore dollar advanced
0.06%, the Malaysian ringgit added 0.15%, the
Indonesian rupiah rose 0.22%, the South Korean won traded up 0.32% and the Thai baht was
0.12% higher.
since September 9, after it agreed to buy

AFK Sistemas Indian wireless unit in an
all-stock deal that would create a carrier
with 118mn subscribers.
The Sensex dropped 3% last week,
paring a monthly advance, after global
funds bought a net $989mn of Indian equities in October, bringing year-to-date
inows to $4.6bn. Meanwhile, the rupee
fell to a one-month low as losses in local
stocks deepened and foreign holdings of

the nations bonds declined.
The rupee weakened 0.5% to 65.5850 a
dollar in Mumbai, prices from local banks
compiled by Bloomberg show. It fell to
65.62 earlier, the lowest level since October 1. The currency declined 0.7% last
week as global holdings of bonds dropped
Rs8.3bn ($126mn), according to data
from the National Security Depository.
PBoC raises yuans daily

reference rate by 0.54
AFP
Beijing
China yesterday raised the daily reference rate
for its yuan currency by the largest margin in
a decade, officials and reports said, just three
months after a surprise devaluation sent
shockwaves through global markets.
The Peoples Bank of China adjusted the
central rate of the yuan also known as the
renminbi (RMB) upwards by 0.54% against
the US dollar, according to a statement.
The increase was the largest since 2005
when Beijing unpegged the yuan from the dollar, Bloomberg News reported.
Analysts attributed the move to improved
sentiment towards the worlds second largest
economy as well as an impending decision by
the International Monetary Fund on whether to
include the yuan in its internal special drawing
rights (SDR) reserve currency basket.
The RMB rose mainly because the market is
responding to an increasing chance for it to be
included in the SDR, Liao Qun, chief economist
of Citic Bank International, told AFP.
Even so the yuan ended at 6.3371 yesterday,
down around 0.30% from Fridays close.
China now allows the currency to trade up
or down 2% from the centrally set daily rate on
the domestic foreign exchange market.

Authorities moved the yuan almost 5% lower
through the daily fix in one week in August,
saying it was part of broader reforms aimed at
shifting towards a more flexible exchange rate.
The economy is stabilising, so the expectation of further depreciation has weakened both
at home and abroad, Liu Jian, an analyst from
the Bank of Communications, told AFP.
On the other hand, the policy intention of
the government is very obvious. It is trying to
maintain a stable foreign exchange market and
guide the market as stability is important for
the yuan to be admitted to the SDR at the coming IMF meeting.
China wants to promote the yuan as a global
reserve currency alongside the dollar, an ambition that depends on its willingness and ability
to loosen tight restrictions on its trade.
But authorities fear that losing control of the
yuans value will mean giving up a powerful
tool for managing the economy, which last
quarter experienced its slowest growth in six
years. The August devaluation raised concerns
abroad that the Chinese economy was performing worse than had been acknowledged,
and fuelled fears that Beijing was trying to
make its exports cheaper to give it a boost.
China has pledged that it would not engage
in competitive devaluations.
Gulf Times
BUSINESS
SAUDI ARABIA
Company Name
QATAR
Company Name
Zad Holding Co
Widam Food Co
Vodafone Qatar
United Development Co
Salam International Investme
Qatar & Oman Investment Co
Qatar Navigation
Qatar National Cement Co
Qatar National Bank
Qatar Islamic Insurance
Qatar Industrial Manufactur
Qatar International Islamic
Qatari Investors Group
Qatar Islamic Bank
Qatar Gas Transport(Nakilat)
Qatar General Insurance & Re
Qatar German Co For Medical
Qatar Fuel Qsc
Qatar Electricity & Water Co
Qatar Cinema & Film Distrib
Qatar Insurance Co
Ooredoo Qsc
National Leasing
Mazaya Qatar Real Estate Dev
Mesaieed Petrochemical Holdi
Al Meera Consumer Goods Co
Medicare Group
Mannai Corporation Qsc
Masraf Al Rayan
Al Khalij Commercial Bank
Industries Qatar
Islamic Holding Group
Gulf Warehousing Company
Gulf International Services
Ezdan Holding Group
Doha Insurance Co
Doha Bank Qsc
Dlala Holding
Commercial Bank Qsc
Barwa Real Estate Co
Al Khaleej Takaful Group
Aamal Co
Lt Price
90.60
52.10
14.24
24.35
12.59
13.90
98.10
106.00
183.00
73.50
42.50
74.50
45.45
118.50
24.90
55.80
16.15
161.60
216.50
38.00
94.60
77.20
16.73
16.15
20.53
234.50
160.00
98.30
42.40
21.06
121.00
100.00
62.40
62.80
19.30
23.01
49.85
21.60
53.20
44.95
33.30
13.88
% Chg
0.00
-0.95
-0.97
0.25
-0.87
0.00
-0.81
0.47
-0.87
0.00
0.83
-0.53
-1.41
-0.84
1.01
0.00
-2.06
-0.25
0.51
0.00
0.11
0.65
-0.95
-0.62
-1.06
1.08
0.00
0.31
-0.59
-0.47
-0.58
-2.44
2.80
-1.72
-0.72
0.00
0.10
0.00
0.95
1.01
0.00
-1.21
Volume
57,629
1,126,722
17,613
230,478
12,506
11,500
5,014
143,218
362
1,560
39,629
7,500
97,060
1,168,198
101,612
26,675
34,164
43,089
94,872
28,052
344,404
128,492
8,578
5,093
1,485
1,168,801
95
179,631
3,340
6,247
271,946
264,088
104,077
228,814
277,200
265,834
SAUDI ARABIA
Company Name
United Wire Factories Compan
Etihad Etisalat Co
Dar Al Arkan Real Estate Dev
Saudi Hollandi Bank
Rabigh Refining And Petroche
Banque Saudi Fransi
Saudi Enaya Cooperative Insu
Mediterranean & Gulf Insuran
Saudi British Bank
Mohammad Al Mojil Group Co
Red Sea Housing Services Co
Takween Advanced Industries
Sabb Takaful
Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Co
National Gypsum
Saudi Ceramic Co
National Gas & Industrializa
Saudi Pharmaceutical Industr
Thimar
National Industrialization C
Saudi Transport And Investme
Saudi Electricity Co
Saudi Arabia Refineries Co
Arriyadh Development Company
Al-Baha Development & Invest
Saudi Research And Marketing
Aldrees Petroleum And Transp
Saudi Vitrified Clay Pipe Co
Jarir Marketing Co
Arab National Bank
Yanbu National Petrochemical
Arabian Cement
Middle East Specialized Cabl
Al Khaleej Training And Educ
Al Sagr Co-Operative Insuran
Trade Union Cooperative Insu
Arabia Insurance Cooperative
Saudi Chemical Company
Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair & C
Bupa Arabia For Cooperative
Wafa Insurance
Jabal Omar Development Co
Saudi Basic Industries Corp
Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Co
Etihad Atheeb Telecommunicat
Co For Cooperative Insurance
National Petrochemical Co
Gulf Union Cooperative Insur
Gulf General Cooperative Ins
Basic Chemical Industries
Saudi Steel Pipe Co
Buruj Cooperative Insurance
Mouwasat Medical Services Co
Southern Province Cement Co
Maadaniyah
Yamama Cement Co
Jazan Development Co
Zamil Industrial Investment
Alujain Corporation (Alco)
Tabuk Agricultural Developme
United Co-Operative Assuranc
Qassim Cement/The
Saudi Advanced Industries
Kingdom Holding Co
Saudi Arabian Amiantit Co
Al Jouf Agriculture Developm
Saudi Industrial Development
Bishah Agriculture
Riyad Bank
The National Agriculture Dev
Halwani Bros Co
Arabian Pipes Co
Eastern Province Cement Co
Al Qassim Agricultural Co
Filing & Packing Materials M
Saudi Cable Co
Tihama Advertising & Public
Saudi Investment Bank/The
Astra Industrial Group
Saudi Public Transport Co
Taiba Holding Co
Saudi Industrial Export Co
Saudi Real Estate Co
Saudia Dairy & Foodstuff Co
National Shipping Co Of/The
Methanol Chemicals Co
Ace Arabia Cooperative Insur
Mobile Telecommunications Co
Saudi Arabian Coop Ins Co
Axa Cooperative Insurance
Alsorayai Group
Weqaya For Takaful Insurance
Bank Albilad
Al-Hassan G.I. Shaker Co
Wataniya Insurance Co
Abdullah Al Othaim Markets
Hail Cement
Lt Price
23.04
28.09
6.51
28.60
14.42
28.30
15.74
26.24
26.00
12.55
23.68
38.11
40.79
83.22
16.93
54.19
23.60
35.00
40.59
12.16
58.95
16.76
43.84
19.52
13.50
20.15
49.20
85.16
163.00
26.30
41.49
49.20
9.45
43.04
29.16
20.10
8.59
59.05
66.72
222.76
14.04
59.47
82.82
8.50
5.13
79.88
21.04
12.51
18.62
23.07
21.77
17.78
115.00
73.26
26.11
37.01
13.17
39.02
17.58
13.73
12.20
73.25
13.10
17.28
10.59
39.70
11.90
69.75
12.76
31.79
75.86
13.42
35.01
13.11
36.91
8.15
32.58
18.18
21.33
20.09
33.83
37.10
22.10
137.75
42.79
8.90
55.54
8.94
18.14
16.28
13.56
19.39
22.21
31.61
65.34
91.50
15.46
% Chg
1.50
2.15
2.36
0.49
1.05
1.22
0.51
-0.49
-0.15
0.00
8.62
3.50
2.18
0.87
0.83
0.44
1.59
0.29
0.37
0.91
-0.22
0.30
-1.39
9.79
0.00
9.81
1.21
0.00
0.53
0.00
-0.02
0.41
1.72
1.25
-0.72
4.15
1.18
-0.30
2.08
-1.28
1.08
1.24
0.72
-0.12
0.39
0.76
-0.57
1.46
-0.37
2.03
2.88
0.79
-0.86
1.20
1.20
0.00
2.97
0.98
0.92
3.62
0.99
0.00
4.88
-1.54
2.42
0.51
9.98
0.00
-0.31
-1.24
0.26
3.23
0.95
0.61
2.56
2.00
2.65
-0.05
1.33
-0.40
2.52
2.32
4.64
-0.32
0.16
0.56
1.52
0.56
1.40
0.80
1.19
0.00
2.07
0.35
1.15
0.58
0.78
Volume
309,343
2,024,907
35,635,549
140,178
588,914
42,205
191,907
1,300,421
160,525
655,971
409,995
1,165,467
122,367
404,820
366,140
88,062
71,843
535,174
826,444
644,247
1,390,126
612,741
2,191,611
170,791
273,452
23,902
37,775
239,791
314,696
172,810
1,020,841
29,651
1,607,976
529,699
722,403
101,024
88,657
51,228
770,010
786,005
6,364,166
4,247,665
1,806,760
203,797
197,570
341,050
242,478
254,442
467,812
307,251
8,182
21,937
336,609
83,333
472,787
370,382
434,644
922,061
182,401
35,191
1,815,967
1,046,470
1,297,535
34,337
1,250,783
1,544,464
189,184
34,891
1,106,268
51,998
1,067,414
717,207
2,204,309
1,495,858
208,472
241,639
3,607,563
148,048
524,513
1,243,397
8,009
1,150,694
744,541
137,802
2,576,103
370,090
410,892
186,760
1,045,950
249,368
105,152
29,017
395,985
Saudi Re For Cooperative Rei

Solidarity Saudi Takaful Co
Amana Cooperative Insurance
Alabdullatif Industrial Inv
Saudi Printing & Packaging C
Sanad Cooperative Insurance
Saudi Paper Manufacturing Co
Alinma Bank
Almarai Co
Falcom Saudi Equity Etf
United International Transpo
Hsbc Amanah Saudi 20 Etf
Saudi International Petroche
Falcom Petrochemical Etf
Saudi United Cooperative Ins
Bank Al-Jazira
Al Rajhi Bank
Samba Financial Group
United Electronics Co
Allied Cooperative Insurance
Malath Cooperative & Reinsur
Alinma Tokio Marine
Arabian Shield Cooperative
Savola
Wafrah For Industry And Deve
Fitaihi Holding Group
Tourism Enterprise Co/ Shams
Sahara Petrochemical Co
Herfy Food Services Co
KUWAIT
Lt Price
7.47
8.01
8.35
30.25
20.75
15.23
15.31
14.85
73.29
25.50
50.31
30.10
17.16
23.50
11.25
17.32
50.95
22.60
47.19
17.79
21.39
16.50
29.00
51.71
25.07
16.88
35.61
12.02
100.39
% Chg
1.08
-0.12
-0.60
0.80
9.79
0.00
2.48
2.27
-5.30
-1.16
1.04
0.00
-0.23
0.00
0.45
1.11
-0.20
-0.04
1.31
3.07
1.18
1.48
1.12
0.41
0.64
1.56
0.74
-0.08
2.19
Volume
509,590
520,237
360,518
28,445
5,811,405
932,614
50,905,971
422,202
403,662
233,923
368,020
356,870
2,390,936
2,798,076
522,306
149,073
930,320
674,649
322,766
310,071
213,515
497,971
242,652
220,466
2,891,942
22,199
KUWAIT
Company Name
Securities Group Co
Sultan Center Food Products
Kuwait Foundry Co Sak
Kuwait Financial Centre Sak
Ajial Real Estate Entmt
Gulf Glass Manuf Co -Kscc
Kuwait Finance & Investment
National Industries Co Ksc
Kuwait Real Estate Holding C
Securities House/The
Boubyan Petrochemicals Co
Al Ahli Bank Of Kuwait
Ahli United Bank (Almutahed)
National Bank Of Kuwait
Commercial Bank Of Kuwait
Kuwait International Bank
Gulf Bank
Al-Massaleh Real Estate Co
Al Arabiya Real Estate Co
Kuwait Remal Real Estate Co
Alkout Industrial Projects C
Aayan Real Estate Co Sak
Investors Holding Group Co.K
Al-Mazaya Holding Co
Al-Madar Finance & Invt Co
Gulf Petroleum Investment
Mabanee Co Sakc
City Group
Inovest Co Bsc
Kuwait Gypsum Manufacturing
Al-Deera Holding Co
Alshamel International Hold
Mena Real Estate Co
National Slaughter House
Amar Finance & Leasing Co
United Projects Group Kscc
National Consumer Holding Co
Amwal International Investme
Jeeran Holdings
Equipment Holding Co K.S.C.C
Nafais Holding
Safwan Trading & Contracting
Arkan Al Kuwait Real Estate
Gfh Financial Group Bsc
Energy House Holding Co Kscp
Kuwait Slaughter House Co
Kuwait Co For Process Plant
Al Maidan Dental Clinic Co K
National Ranges Company
Al-Themar Real International
Al Ahleia Insurance Co Sak
Wethaq Takaful Insurance Co
Salbookh Trading Co Kscp
Aqar Real Estate Investments
Hayat Communications
Kuwait Packing Materials Mfg
Soor Fuel Marketing Co Ksc
Alargan International Real
Burgan Co For Well Drilling
Kuwait Resorts Co Kscc
Oula Fuel Marketing Co
Palms Agro Production Co
Ikarus Petroleum Industries
Mubarrad Transport Co
Al Mowasat Health Care Co
Shuaiba Industrial Co
Hits Telecom Holding
First Takaful Insurance Co
Kuwaiti Syrian Holding Co
National Cleaning Company
Eyas For High & Technical Ed
United Real Estate Company
Agility
Kuwait & Middle East Fin Inv
Fujairah Cement Industries
Livestock Transport & Tradng
International Resorts Co
National Industries Grp Hold
Marine Services Co
Warba Insurance Co
Kuwait United Poultry Co
First Dubai Real Estate Deve
Al Arabi Group Holding Co
Kuwait Hotels Sak
Mobile Telecommunications Co
Al Safat Real Estate Co
Tamdeen Real Estate Co Ksc
Al Mudon Intl Real Estate Co
Kuwait Cement Co Ksc
Sharjah Cement & Indus Devel
Kuwait Portland Cement Co
Educational Holding Group
Bahrain Kuwait Insurance
Asiya Capital Investments Co
Kuwait Investment Co
Burgan Bank
Kuwait Projects Co Holdings
Al Madina For Finance And In
Kuwait Insurance Co
Al Masaken Intl Real Estate
Intl Financial Advisors
First Investment Co Kscc
Al Mal Investment Company
Bayan Investment Co Kscc
Egypt Kuwait Holding Co Sae
Coast Investment Development
Privatization Holding Compan
Kuwait Medical Services Co
Injazzat Real State Company
Kuwait Cable Vision Sak
Sanam Real Estate Co Kscc
Ithmaar Bank Bsc
Aviation Lease And Finance C
Arzan Financial Group For Fi
Ajwan Gulf Real Estate Co
Manafae Investment Co Ksc
Kuwait Business Town Real Es
Future Kid Entertainment And
Specialities Group Holding C
Abyaar Real Eastate Developm
Dar Al Thuraya Real Estate C
Al-Dar National Real Estate
Kgl Logistics Company Kscc
Combined Group Contracting
Zima Holding Co Ksc
Lt Price
112.00
73.00
238.00
106.00
182.00
500.00
48.50
210.00
27.50
51.00
550.00
375.00
550.00
820.00
520.00
232.00
270.00
48.50
35.50
41.50
0.00
80.00
29.50
104.00
0.00
57.00
880.00
400.00
58.00
0.00
37.00
0.00
27.00
62.00
0.00
700.00
0.00
0.00
65.00
72.00
152.00
330.00
110.00
42.50
48.00
0.00
206.00
0.00
25.00
90.00
380.00
42.00
87.00
80.00
48.50
390.00
110.00
170.00
93.00
100.00
116.00
0.00
102.00
82.00
0.00
415.00
30.50
65.00
28.00
44.50
0.00
100.00
530.00
33.00
75.00
138.00
34.50
144.00
104.00
108.00
176.00
55.00
84.00
0.00
370.00
0.00
495.00
36.50
375.00
88.00
1,160.00
216.00
0.00
38.50
110.00
400.00
580.00
51.00
300.00
53.00
35.50
66.00
35.00
39.50
190.00
34.00
55.00
22.50
78.00
30.00
42.00
46.50
222.00
41.50
30.00
64.00
42.00
0.00
87.00
33.00
0.00
30.00
66.00
780.00
88.00
% Chg
0.00
-2.67
-0.83
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
3.77
4.08
3.77
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.89
1.04
1.43
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.33
0.00
-1.69
0.00
0.00
0.00
-5.26
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.86
1.33
0.00
0.00
1.19
1.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.30
3.70
3.57
0.00
2.11
0.00
-3.51
1.19
-5.10
1.01
1.75
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.67
0.00
-3.45
1.14
0.00
1.01
-1.85
0.00
0.00
-1.43
1.47
1.41
0.00
0.00
-2.22
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.33
0.00
4.21
1.39
-1.32
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.67
0.00
1.27
1.75
-5.56
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.49
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
5.41
9.09
0.00
-1.06
0.00
-2.35
0.00
-7.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
6.45
0.00
1.15
Volume
283
80,575
41,145
100,000
1,005
977
1,000
96
9,500
1,495,955
243,583
66,586
33,368
1,408,672
250
1,145,369
500,000
55,000
588,498
260,000
278,152
4,616,564
465,100
7,762,833
295,581
5,264
10,000
293,391
1,723,536
35,000
571
185,782
6,771,336
5,256
9,750
30,000
1,835,916
2,000
50
1,797,188
6,750
6,416
12,500
43,000
40,000
498,080
40,000
1,250,353
92,600
16,368
250,000
27,140
7,676
190,000
2,005
2,146,500
8,010
1,677,390
2,910,240
361,318
748,444
39,225
50,000
10,000
4,367,941
979,024
995
5,076
787
867,070
40,000
608,444
63,750
7,427,066
25,000
1,103,000
5,150
10
278,188
450
164,963
975,110
6,591,968
9,312
1,001
5,334,486
200,000
1,190,249
310,000
100
1,130,709
150,200
20,000
43,450
269
5,133
2,676,890
242,468
2,565,135
800,700
8,265
2,044,000
10,100
2,211,500
6,638,344
6,694,273
2,000
2,216,344
Company Name
Qurain Holding Co
Boubyan Intl Industries Hold
Gulf Investment House Ksc
Boubyan Bank K.S.C
Ahli United Bank B.S.C
Osos Holding Group Co
Al-Eid Food Ksc
Qurain Petrochemical Industr
Advanced Technology Co
Ekttitab Holding Co Sak
Kout Food Group Ksc
Real Estate Trade Centers Co
Acico Industries Co Kscc
Kipco Asset Management Co
National Petroleum Services
Alimtiaz Investment Co Kscc
Ras Al Khaimah White Cement
Kuwait Reinsurance Co Ksc
Kuwait & Gulf Link Transport
Human Soft Holding Co Ksc
Automated Systems Co Kscc
Metal & Recycling Co
Gulf Franchising Holding Co
Al-Enmaa Real Estate Co
National Mobile Telecommuni
Al Bareeq Holding Co Kscc
Housing Finance Co Sak
Al Salam Group Holding Co
United Foodstuff Industries
Al Aman Investment Company
Mashaer Holdings Co Ksc
Manazel Holding
Mushrif Trading & Contractin
Tijara And Real Estate Inves
Kuwait Building Materials
Jazeera Airways Co Ksc
Commercial Real Estate Co
Future Communications Co
National International Co
Taameer Real Estate Invest C
Gulf Cement Co
Heavy Engineering And Ship B
Refrigeration Industries & S
National Real Estate Co
Al Safat Energy Holding Comp
Kuwait National Cinema Co
Danah Alsafat Foodstuff Co
Independent Petroleum Group
Kuwait Real Estate Co Ksc
Salhia Real Estate Co Ksc
Gulf Cable & Electrical Ind
Al Nawadi Holding Co Ksc
Kuwait Finance House
Gulf North Africa Holding Co
Hilal Cement Co
Osoul Investment Kscc
Gulf Insurance Group Ksc
Kuwait Food Co (Americana)
Umm Al Qaiwain Cement Indust
OMAN
Lt Price
7.50
38.50
37.50
435.00
210.00
79.00
0.00
188.00
0.00
34.50
580.00
28.00
295.00
102.00
600.00
74.00
106.00
0.00
48.50
1,060.00
325.00
65.00
100.00
66.00
1,040.00
110.00
31.50
43.00
140.00
62.00
112.00
33.50
73.00
42.50
210.00
480.00
85.00
116.00
65.00
28.50
81.00
140.00
320.00
83.00
14.00
950.00
88.00
265.00
62.00
320.00
410.00
83.00
560.00
34.00
134.00
39.50
600.00
2,300.00
81.00
% Chg
7.14
4.05
7.14
0.00
0.00
3.95
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.43
0.00
-6.67
5.36
2.00
0.00
-1.33
3.92
0.00
3.19
0.00
-7.14
-7.14
0.00
1.54
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.18
0.00
3.33
0.00
0.00
7.35
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.19
0.00
-4.41
-1.72
0.00
1.45
-1.54
-1.19
0.00
0.00
1.15
6.00
1.64
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.45
0.00
2.60
0.00
1.77
0.00
Volume
18,500
11,900,451
12,630,334
30,873
100,000
71,000
317,337
510,200
4,800
456,110
10,010
117,835
1,111
200,000
500
1,105,711
510
5,000
1,000
48,000
922,320
8,625
2,651,000
282,000
2,924,423
30,000
144,000
40,080
841,350
518,000
51,509
10,000
2,359
131,848
50,100
809,754
331,000
15,000
140,881
30
123,324
1,295,000
1,226
356,000
8,679
842,442
45,000
5,682
5
1,214,805
1,545,171
14,020
72,763
49
293
2,740
OMAN
Company Name
Voltamp Energy Saog
United Power/Energy Co- Pref
United Power Co
United Finance Co
Ubar Hotels & Resorts
Takaful Oman
Taageer Finance
Sweets Of Oman
Sohar Power Co
Sohar Poultry
Smn Power Holding Saog
Shell Oman Marketing - Pref
Shell Oman Marketing
Sharqiyah Desalination Co Sa
Sembcorp Salalah Power & Wat
Salalah Port Services
Salalah Mills Co
Salalah Beach Resort Saog
Sahara Hospitality
Renaissance Services Saog
Raysut Cement Co
Port Service Corporation
Phoenix Power Co Saoc
Packaging Co Ltd
Ooredoo
Ominvest
Oman United Insurance Co
Oman Textile Holding Co Saog
Oman Telecommunications Co
Oman Refreshment Co
Oman Packaging
Oman Orix Leasing Co.
Oman Oil Marketing Company
Oman National Engineering An
Oman Investment & Finance
Oman Intl Marketing
Oman Hotels & Tourism Co
Oman Foods International Soa
Oman Flour Mills
Oman Fisheries Co
Oman Fiber Optics
Oman Europe Foods Industries
Oman Education & Training In
Oman Chromite
Oman Chlorine
Oman Ceramic Com
Oman Cement Co
Oman Cables Industry
Oman Agricultural Dev
Oman & Emirates Inv(Om)50%
Natl Aluminium Products
National Securities
National Real Estate Develop
National Pharmaceutical
National Mineral Water
National Hospitality Institu
National Gas Co
National Finance Co
National Detergent Co Saog
National Biscuit Industries
National Bank Of Oman Saog
Muscat Thread Mills Co
Muscat National Holding
Muscat Gases Company Saog
Muscat Finance
Majan Glass Company
Majan College
Hsbc Bank Oman
Hotels Management Co Interna
Gulf Stone
Gulf Plastic Industries Co
Gulf Mushroom Company
Gulf Investments Services
Gulf Invest. Serv. Pref-Shar
Gulf International Chemicals
Gulf Hotels (Oman) Co Ltd
Global Fin Investment
Galfar Engineering&Contract
Galfar Engineering -Prefer
Financial Services Co.
Financial Corp/The
Dhofar University
Dhofar Tourism
Dhofar Poultry
Dhofar Intl Development
Dhofar Insurance
Dhofar Fisheries & Food Indu
Dhofar Cattlefeed
Dhofar Beverages Co
Construction Materials Ind
Computer Stationery Inds
Bankmuscat Saog
Bank Sohar
Bank Nizwa
Bank Dhofar Saog
Lt Price
0.44
1.00
2.77
0.13
0.13
0.11
0.13
1.34
0.38
0.21
0.76
1.05
2.00
4.59
2.70
0.65
1.49
1.38
2.50
0.17
1.13
0.16
0.15
0.48
0.76
0.51
0.26
0.36
1.63
2.48
0.28
0.14
2.00
0.26
0.19
0.52
0.24
0.48
0.47
0.06
5.26
1.00
0.15
3.64
0.53
0.45
0.45
1.94
1.45
0.10
0.23
0.17
5.00
0.10
0.06
2.05
0.31
0.15
0.70
3.75
0.32
0.13
1.86
0.83
0.14
0.22
0.52
0.12
1.25
0.11
0.39
0.39
0.10
0.12
0.28
10.50
0.10
0.09
0.39
0.17
0.11
1.47
0.49
0.18
0.40
0.21
1.28
0.21
0.26
0.04
0.26
0.54
0.18
0.08
0.24
% Chg
0.00
0.00
0.00
-0.79
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-0.55
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.64
-0.31
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.85
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-2.52
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.28
0.00
Volume
395,572
2,040
142,425
3,000
299,516
320,000
20,700
142,790
315,430
75,162
20,000
2,000
561,900
85,000
299,864
100,000
1,250
1,416,185
502,000
2,553,442
200,000
Company Name
Areej Vegetable Oils
Aloula Co
Al-Omaniya Financial Service
Al-Hassan Engineering Co
Al-Fajar Al-Alamia Co
Al-Anwar Ceramic Tiles Co
Al Suwadi Power
Al Shurooq Inv Ser
Al Sharqiya Invest Holding
Al Maha Petroleum Products M
Al Maha Ceramics Co Saoc
Al Madina Takaful Insurance
Al Madina Investment Co
Al Kamil Power Co
Al Jazerah Services -Pfd
Al Jazeera Steel Products Co
Al Jazeera Services
Al Izz Islamic Bank
Al Buraimi Hotel
Al Batinah Power
Al Batinah Hotels
Al Batinah Dev & Inv
Al Anwar Holdings Saog
Ahli Bank
Acwa Power Barka Saog
Abrasives Manufacturing Co S
Asaffa Foods Saog
0Man Oil Marketing Co-Pref
#N/A Invalid Security
Lt Price
5.51
0.53
0.31
0.09
0.75
0.34
0.22
1.04
0.11
1.96
0.46
0.08
0.06
0.31
0.55
0.19
0.41
0.07
0.88
0.22
1.13
0.10
0.18
0.20
0.81
0.05
0.86
0.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
% Chg
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-0.87
-2.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Volume
3,000
100,000
426
17,500
16,150
42,000
113,041
450,714
-
UAE
Company Name
Waha Capital Pjsc
United Insurance Company
United Arab Bank Pjsc
Union National Bank/Abu Dhab
Union Insurance Co
Union Cement Co
Umm Al Qaiwain Cement Indust
Sharjah Islamic Bank
Sharjah Insurance Company
Sharjah Group
Sharjah Cement & Indus Devel
Ras Al-Khaimah National Insu
Ras Al Khaimah White Cement
Ras Al Khaimah Ceramics
Ras Al Khaimah Cement Co Psc
Ras Al Khaima Poultry
Rak Properties
Ooredoo Qsc
Oman & Emirates Inv(Emir)50%
Nbad Oneshare Msci Uae Etf
National Takaful Company
National Marine Dredging Co
National Investor Co/The
National Corp Tourism & Hote
National Bank Of Umm Al Qaiw
National Bank Of Ras Al-Khai
National Bank Of Fujairah
National Bank Of Abu Dhabi
Methaq Takaful Insurance
Manazel Real Estate Pjsc
Invest Bank
Intl Fish Farming Co Pjsc
Insurance House
Gulf Pharmaceutical Industri
Gulf Medical Projects
Gulf Cement Co
Green Crescent Insurance Co
Fujairah Cement Industries
Fujairah Building Industries
Foodco Holding
First Gulf Bank
Finance House
Eshraq Properties Co Pjsc
Emirates Telecom Group Co
Emirates Insurance Co. (Psc)
Emirates Driving Company
Dana Gas
Commercial Bank Internationa
Bank Of Sharjah
Arkan Building Materials Co
Alkhaleej Investment
Aldar Properties Pjsc
Al Wathba National Insurance
Al Khazna Insurance Co
Al Fujairah National Insuran
Al Dhafra Insurance Co. P.S.
Al Buhaira National Insuranc
Al Ain Ahlia Ins. Co.
Agthia Group Pjsc
Abu Dhabi Ship Building Co
Abu Dhabi Natl Co For Buildi
Abu Dhabi National Takaful C
Abu Dhabi National Insurance
Abu Dhabi National Hotels
Abu Dhabi National Energy Co
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
Lt Price
2.17
2.00
5.52
5.50
1.20
1.14
1.08
1.58
3.85
1.35
1.01
4.10
1.30
3.45
0.88
1.60
0.56
74.00
1.38
6.26
1.08
4.50
0.72
4.50
3.10
6.80
3.15
8.73
0.83
0.62
2.25
6.95
0.81
2.51
2.50
0.98
0.68
1.35
1.90
4.00
12.30
2.46
0.61
15.25
6.72
5.00
0.47
1.55
1.58
0.84
2.45
2.37
4.50
0.30
300.00
4.80
2.50
60.00
7.70
2.77
0.51
4.73
3.15
2.75
0.48
4.24
% Chg
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.79
0.00
0.00
0.00
3.95
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-0.76
-1.43
4.76
0.00
1.82
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.26
-9.74
-1.36
3.75
1.64
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
3.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.50
1.67
-0.33
0.00
-9.09
2.17
0.00
0.00
-6.67
0.00
4.87
0.00
-3.23
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-2.04
1.19
Volume
105,000
147,881
157,245
1,000,000
60,000
870,645
1,000
5,467,014
60,051
210,659
595,698
5,921,175
2,863,321
150,000
25,000
1,921,655
19,371
7,507,093
2,005,418
22,000
8,091,260
13,900
15,666,911
50,000
7,671
50,000
616,474
74,610
BAHRAIN
Company Name
Zain Bahrain Bscc
United Paper Industries Bsc
United Gulf Investment Corp
United Gulf Bank
Trafco Group Bsc
Takaful International Co
Taib Bank -$Us
Seef Properties
Securities & Investment Co
National Hotels Co
National Bank Of Bahrain Bsc
Nass Corp Bsc
Khaleeji Commercial Bank
Ithmaar Bank Bsc
Investcorp Bank -$Us
Inovest Co Bsc
Gulf Monetary Group
Gulf Hotel Group B.S.C
Global Investment House Kpsc
Gfh Financial Group Bsc
Esterad Investment Co B.S.C.
Delmon Poultry Co
Bmmi Bsc
Bmb Investment Bank
Bbk Bsc
Bankmuscat Saog
Banader Hotels Co
Bahrain Tourism Co
Bahrain Telecom Co
Bahrain Ship Repair & Engin
Bahrain National Holding
Bahrain Kuwait Insurance
Bahrain Islamic Bank
Bahrain Flour Mills Co
Bahrain Family Leisure Co
Bahrain Duty Free Complex
Bahrain Commercial Facilitie
Bahrain Cinema Co
Bahrain Car Park Co
Arab Insurance Group(Bsc)-$
Arab Banking Corp Bsc-$Us
Aluminium Bahrain Bsc
Albaraka Banking Group
Al-Salam Bank
Al-Ahlia Insurance Co
Lt Price
0.18
0.00
0.00
0.39
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.20
0.00
0.00
0.73
0.15
0.06
0.15
640.00
0.17
0.00
0.83
0.00
0.17
0.21
0.00
0.86
0.00
0.43
0.00
`
0.00
0.33
0.00
0.42
0.59
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.85
0.70
1.40
0.00
0.42
0.50
0.44
0.62
0.11
0.30
% Chg
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1.52
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.40
0.00
-1.69
-3.23
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.42
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.62
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-0.80
0.00
0.00
Volume
10,000
12,457,235
64,000
7,521
60,575
1,624,846
500,000
423
37,782
100,000
50,000
200,000
5,000
8,477
110,167
4,000
10,000
102,958
30,000
3,555
50,000
25,000
20,000
11,000
55,851
594,903
22,748
LATEST MARKET CLOSING FIGURES
Gulf Times
BUSINESS
DJIA
WORLD INDICES
Company Name
Apple Inc
Microsoft Corp
Exxon Mobil Corp
General Electric Co
Johnson & Johnson
Jpmorgan Chase & Co
Pfizer Inc
Procter & Gamble Co/The
Walt Disney Co/The
Verizon Communications Inc
Visa Inc-Class A Shares
Coca-Cola Co/The
Wal-Mart Stores Inc
Chevron Corp
Intel Corp
Home Depot Inc
Merck & Co. Inc.
Cisco Systems Inc
Intl Business Machines Corp
Unitedhealth Group Inc
Nike Inc -Cl B
Mcdonalds Corp
Boeing Co/The
3M Co
United Technologies Corp
Goldman Sachs Group Inc
American Express Co
Du Pont (E.I.) De Nemours
Caterpillar Inc
Travelers Cos Inc/The
Lt Price
120.77
53.05
83.78
29.15
101.93
65.17
34.83
76.29
114.51
46.65
75.54
41.97
57.03
93.28
34.03
123.64
55.11
28.70
140.25
119.27
129.51
111.91
148.44
159.04
99.08
189.56
73.93
63.87
73.59
113.69
% Chg
1.06
0.78
1.26
0.80
0.89
1.43
2.98
-0.12
0.68
-0.50
-2.63
-0.91
-0.37
2.64
0.50
0.00
0.81
-0.54
0.12
1.27
-1.16
-0.30
0.25
1.16
0.68
1.10
0.91
0.74
0.82
0.71
10,615,950
5,269,393
4,342,550
12,367,668
1,710,126
3,814,435
12,368,841
1,635,102
1,470,788
3,412,039
12,036,652
4,666,253
2,784,213
3,883,589
5,292,025
891,215
2,524,760
8,561,395
855,783
795,117
1,057,887
1,547,766
620,341
611,402
632,804
879,424
912,320
1,160,485
1,403,459
391,090
FTSE 100
Company Name
Wpp Plc
Wolseley Plc
Wm Morrison Supermarkets
Whitbread Plc
Vodafone Group Plc
United Utilities Group Plc
Unilever Plc
Tui Ag-Di
Travis Perkins Plc
Tesco Plc
Taylor Wimpey Plc
Standard Life Plc
Standard Chartered Plc
St Jamess Place Plc
Sse Plc
Sports Direct International
Smiths Group Plc
Smith & Nephew Plc
Sky Plc
Shire Plc
Severn Trent Plc
Schroders Plc
Sainsbury (J) Plc
Sage Group Plc/The
Sabmiller Plc
Rsa Insurance Group Plc
Royal Mail Plc
Royal Dutch Shell Plc-B Shs
Royal Dutch Shell Plc-A Shs
Royal Bank Of Scotland Group
Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc
Rio Tinto Plc
Relx Plc
Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc
Randgold Resources Ltd
Prudential Plc
Persimmon Plc
Pearson Plc
Old Mutual Plc
Next Plc
National Grid Plc
Mondi Plc
Merlin Entertainment
Meggitt Plc
Marks & Spencer Group Plc
London Stock Exchange Group
Lloyds Banking Group Plc
Legal & General Group Plc
Land Securities Group Plc
Kingfisher Plc
Johnson Matthey Plc
Itv Plc
Intu Properties Plc
Intl Consolidated Airline-Di
Intertek Group Plc
Intercontinental Hotels Grou
Inmarsat Plc
Imperial Tobacco Group Plc
Hsbc Holdings Plc
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc
Hargreaves Lansdown Plc
Hammerson Plc
Glencore Plc
Glaxosmithkline Plc
Gkn Plc
G4s Plc
Fresnillo Plc
Experian Plc
Easyjet Plc
Dixons Carphone Plc
Direct Line Insurance Group
Diageo Plc
Crh Plc
Compass Group Plc
Coca-Cola Hbc Ag-Di
Centrica Plc
Carnival Plc
Capita Plc
Burberry Group Plc
Bunzl Plc
Bt Group Plc
British Land Co Plc
British American Tobacco Plc
Bp Plc
Bhp Billiton Plc
Bg Group Plc
Berkeley Group Holdings
Barratt Developments Plc
Barclays Plc
Bae Systems Plc
Babcock Intl Group Plc
Aviva Plc
Astrazeneca Plc
Associated British Foods Plc
Ashtead Group Plc
Arm Holdings Plc
Antofagasta Plc
Anglo American Plc
Admiral Group Plc
Aberdeen Asset Mgmt Plc
3I Group Plc
#N/A!
Lt Price
1,478.00
3,847.00
170.30
4,917.00
214.90
983.00
2,879.00
1,189.00
1,951.00
183.60
198.60
419.90
713.90
960.00
1,513.00
694.50
972.00
1,104.00
1,092.00
4,904.00
2,237.00
2,983.00
267.20
542.00
3,993.00
419.90
444.00
1,716.00
1,704.50
323.50
690.00
2,307.50
1,159.00
6,292.00
4,272.00
1,521.50
1,967.00
862.00
211.70
7,975.00
923.40
1,505.00
410.80
355.50
520.50
2,558.00
74.94
262.20
1,336.00
355.50
2,601.00
255.00
344.10
585.50
2,622.00
2,601.00
990.50
3,495.00
502.50
2,061.00
1,448.00
629.00
114.35
1,396.50
291.60
245.10
720.00
1,114.00
1,716.00
463.00
392.70
1,866.50
1,802.00
1,087.00
1,550.00
227.00
3,599.00
1,280.00
1,338.00
1,873.00
463.50
869.00
3,823.00
386.65
1,025.00
1,029.50
3,299.00
609.50
236.85
444.40
965.00
484.50
4,146.00
3,418.00
1,017.00
1,033.00
520.50
543.70
1,612.00
344.90
502.00
0.00
% Chg
1.37
0.79
1.07
-0.99
0.30
-0.56
-0.48
-1.65
1.83
0.16
0.30
-0.24
-1.04
-0.47
-0.13
-0.36
1.04
-0.54
-0.36
-0.43
-0.27
0.00
0.30
-0.55
-0.05
-0.24
-0.29
0.94
0.86
1.86
0.36
-2.16
-0.26
-0.82
-2.20
0.16
-1.35
0.06
-0.28
-0.31
-0.15
0.07
-0.96
0.54
1.46
0.51
1.64
0.23
-0.22
0.68
0.62
1.03
-0.58
0.52
-0.11
0.00
0.56
-0.11
-1.00
-4.76
0.28
-1.18
1.64
-0.60
1.53
0.99
-1.37
0.54
-1.94
0.37
-0.43
-0.64
1.18
-2.86
0.00
0.40
-0.50
0.39
0.75
0.75
-0.32
-0.17
-0.95
0.06
-1.49
0.44
-0.57
-0.49
2.09
0.93
0.10
-0.31
-0.11
-1.07
1.70
0.78
-1.14
-0.53
-0.06
-0.52
0.20
0.00
Volume
1,753,192
337,029
2,405,045
403,754
13,074,870
679,701
1,394,316
166,509
302,175
7,079,874
7,272,365
1,672,091
3,810,640
546,041
1,786,848
482,074
502,442
1,818,541
899,850
1,567,019
179,329
110,041
2,317,052
671,467
1,998,366
1,212,093
1,149,100
2,679,808
3,591,606
7,043,594
2,399,611
3,000,744
1,275,970
393,175
283,640
956,567
565,424
1,252,544
2,103,812
129,925
2,264,446
412,369
546,942
2,051,522
2,642,664
209,073
62,339,143
4,320,420
563,954
4,382,576
202,215
4,233,649
935,070
5,443,025
228,011
381,352
380,486
2,521,873
10,284,910
621,408
291,491
948,627
26,423,377
4,749,326
1,599,886
912,513
489,277
856,640
1,647,158
1,141,912
1,266,716
1,064,519
470,113
3,243,312
75,601
5,676,019
271,857
303,955
600,113
336,385
7,024,236
1,077,562
1,236,117
13,747,396
4,788,294
2,642,919
190,892
2,359,483
32,094,578
3,034,891
264,620
5,149,715
918,195
509,328
662,561
1,563,104
1,342,462
4,606,790
255,936
1,585,632
324,077
-
TOKYO
Company Name
East Japan Railway Co
Itochu Corp
Fujifilm Holdings Corp
Yamato Holdings Co Ltd
Chubu Electric Power Co Inc
Mitsubishi Estate Co Ltd
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Toshiba Corp
Shiseido Co Ltd
Shionogi & Co Ltd
Tokyo Gas Co Ltd
Tokyo Electron Ltd
Panasonic Corp
Fujitsu Ltd
Central Japan Railway Co
T&D Holdings Inc
Toyota Motor Corp
Kddi Corp
Nitto Denko Corp
Lt Price
11,345.00
1,485.00
4,761.00
2,297.00
1,768.50
2,548.00
595.80
339.70
2,739.00
4,999.00
582.10
7,322.00
1,399.00
561.80
21,515.00
1,567.00
7,387.00
2,849.50
8,250.00
% Chg
-1.94
-2.56
-1.88
-3.91
-5.40
-2.26
-2.98
-0.99
-5.26
0.16
-3.24
0.25
-2.51
-2.33
-3.09
-2.18
-1.10
-3.28
5.44
Indices
Volume
Volume
1,151,400
6,046,500
1,950,300
2,724,500
3,745,800
4,996,000
17,609,000
16,355,000
4,133,100
4,007,600
11,434,000
1,113,900
9,518,700
20,114,000
439,600
1,868,200
6,704,600
7,325,800
2,881,300
Lt Price
Change
Dow Jones Indus. Avg

S&P 500 Index
Nasdaq Composite Index
S&P/Tsx Composite Index
Mexico Bolsa Index
Brazil Bovespa Stock Idx
Ftse 100 Index
Cac 40 Index
Dax Index
Ibex 35 Tr
17,753.93
2,090.84
5,089.86
13,565.55
44,542.76
45,868.82
6,356.73
4,916.19
10,941.09
10,408.50
+90.39
+11.48
+36.11
+36.38
-92.05
+240.47
-4.36
+18.53
+90.95
+47.80
Nikkei 225
Japan Topix
Hang Seng Index
All Ordinaries Indx
Nzx All Index
Bse Sensex 30 Index
Nse S&P Cnx Nifty Index
Straits Times Index
Karachi All Share Index
Jakarta Composite Index
18,683.24
1,526.97
22,370.04
5,221.28
1,155.97
26,559.15
8,050.80
2,974.41
23,861.19
4,464.96
-399.86
-31.23
-270.00
-67.29
+0.28
-97.68
-15.00
-23.94
-84.28
+9.78
TOKYO
Company Name
Rakuten Inc
Kyocera Corp
Nissan Motor Co Ltd
Hitachi Ltd
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd
Jfe Holdings Inc
Ana Holdings Inc
Mitsubishi Electric Corp
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Gr
Honda Motor Co Ltd
Fast Retailing Co Ltd
Ms&Ad Insurance Group Holdin
Kubota Corp
Seven & I Holdings Co Ltd
Inpex Corp
Resona Holdings Inc
Asahi Kasei Corp
Kirin Holdings Co Ltd
Marubeni Corp
Mitsubishi Ufj Financial Gro
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings
Fanuc Corp
Daito Trust Construct Co Ltd
Otsuka Holdings Co Ltd
Oriental Land Co Ltd
Sekisui House Ltd
Secom Co Ltd
Tokio Marine Holdings Inc
Aeon Co Ltd
Mitsui & Co Ltd
Kao Corp
Dai-Ichi Life Insurance
Mazda Motor Corp
Komatsu Ltd
West Japan Railway Co
Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd
Kansai Electric Power Co Inc
Denso Corp
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdin
Daiwa House Industry Co Ltd
Jx Holdings Inc
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Meta
Suzuki Motor Corp
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone
Ajinomoto Co Inc
Mitsui Fudosan Co Ltd
Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd
Daikin Industries Ltd
Bank Of Yokohama Ltd/The
Toray Industries Inc
Astellas Pharma Inc
Bridgestone Corp
Sony Corp
Hoya Corp
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdin
Japan Tobacco Inc
Osaka Gas Co Ltd
Sumitomo Electric Industries
Daiwa Securities Group Inc
Softbank Group Corp
Mizuho Financial Group Inc
Nomura Holdings Inc
Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
Ntt Docomo Inc
Sumitomo Realty & Developmen
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd
Orix Corp
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd
Keyence Corp
Nidec Corp
Isuzu Motors Ltd
Unicharm Corp
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd
Smc Corp
Mitsubishi Corp
Nintendo Co Ltd
Eisai Co Ltd
Sumitomo Corp
Canon Inc
Japan Airlines Co Ltd
Lt Price
1,623.50
5,432.00
1,240.00
688.70
5,859.00
1,809.00
357.80
1,248.00
4,713.00
3,952.00
43,220.00
3,514.00
1,839.00
5,453.00
1,135.50
629.60
726.50
1,634.50
688.80
765.40
742.50
21,115.00
12,930.00
3,985.00
7,397.00
1,972.00
7,903.00
4,621.00
1,761.50
1,507.00
6,101.00
2,094.50
2,381.50
1,967.00
8,063.00
18,120.00
1,516.00
5,546.00
3,735.00
3,092.00
474.20
2,334.50
3,894.00
4,436.00
2,606.00
3,186.00
16,890.00
7,672.00
733.20
1,042.00
1,718.00
4,418.00
3,433.00
4,970.00
459.40
4,124.00
453.10
1,589.50
824.40
6,746.00
244.20
760.00
2,300.00
4,692.00
2,395.00
3,863.00
1,466.50
1,763.00
3,654.00
62,940.00
9,121.00
1,380.50
2,545.00
7,086.00
30,550.00
2,152.00
19,415.00
7,318.00
1,280.50
3,590.00
4,530.00
% Chg
-3.79
-1.29
-2.09
-2.02
-1.20
-5.58
-1.24
-1.73
-3.02
-2.27
-2.61
-2.17
-2.75
-1.05
-1.73
-2.18
-2.68
-5.03
-1.94
-3.19
-2.35
-2.04
-1.60
-1.46
0.20
-2.59
-2.64
-1.51
-2.08
-2.17
-2.21
-0.97
-0.96
-1.75
-5.47
4.41
-2.70
-2.05
-2.43
-3.25
-0.38
-5.52
-2.41
-1.11
-3.73
-3.75
1.26
-2.14
-3.44
-1.93
-2.66
-1.30
-1.35
-1.17
-1.77
-2.07
-5.25
-4.51
-0.93
-0.75
-2.44
-0.73
-3.54
-0.76
1.59
-3.52
-2.91
-1.04
-2.48
-1.01
-0.57
-2.88
-1.93
-2.05
-2.52
-2.73
-0.33
-3.81
-3.76
-1.37
-1.09
Volume
8,278,300
1,553,000
12,020,600
21,428,000
1,817,200
5,867,300
14,712,000
6,430,000
7,697,000
2,974,800
442,500
1,302,600
3,171,000
2,386,200
4,009,900
7,642,300
19,647,000
4,539,700
9,675,600
67,691,900
4,015,000
1,020,600
461,800
1,444,500
1,964,200
2,820,300
781,600
1,480,000
3,721,300
6,839,900
1,573,300
4,435,200
5,214,200
3,690,400
1,504,600
2,249,500
2,417,700
2,623,500
1,045,200
1,978,000
10,739,700
6,523,500
1,237,900
3,499,800
1,970,000
4,634,000
674,300
941,500
2,861,000
4,726,000
7,785,500
1,920,300
6,537,000
1,875,300
18,236,000
3,166,500
14,511,000
4,499,400
7,253,000
4,621,200
145,444,200
18,053,900
3,336,300
3,589,700
7,437,500
3,452,000
2,648,000
7,866,200
1,637,700
217,300
1,541,600
2,892,100
3,510,900
1,057,800
160,800
5,118,200
1,909,400
1,447,400
8,246,600
4,184,100
2,738,600
SENSEX
Company Name
Zee Entertainment Enterprise
Yes Bank Ltd
Wipro Ltd
Vedanta Ltd
Ultratech Cement Ltd
Tech Mahindra Ltd
Tata Steel Ltd
Tata Power Co Ltd
Tata Motors Ltd
Tata Consultancy Svcs Ltd
Sun Pharmaceutical Indus
State Bank Of India
Reliance Industries Ltd
Punjab National Bank
Power Grid Corp Of India Ltd
Oil & Natural Gas Corp Ltd
Ntpc Ltd
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
Lupin Ltd
Larsen & Toubro Ltd
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd
Itc Ltd
Infosys Ltd
Indusind Bank Ltd
Idea Cellular Ltd
Icici Bank Ltd
Housing Development Finance
Hindustan Unilever Ltd
Hindalco Industries Ltd
Hero Motocorp Ltd
Hdfc Bank Limited
Hcl Technologies Ltd
Grasim Industries Ltd
Gail India Ltd
Dr. Reddys Laboratories
Coal India Ltd
Cipla Ltd
Cairn India Ltd
Bosch Ltd
Bharti Airtel Ltd
Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd
Bharat Heavy Electricals
Bank Of Baroda
Bajaj Auto Ltd
Axis Bank Ltd
Asian Paints Ltd
Ambuja Cements Ltd
Adani Ports And Special Econ
Acc Ltd
Lt Price
412.90
772.00
575.15
96.95
2,927.70
556.05
238.90
68.75
387.95
2,517.35
865.35
236.90
959.80
129.45
128.95
247.40
132.70
4,495.75
1,208.85
1,899.60
1,388.65
686.50
337.20
1,131.20
913.65
140.60
279.55
1,221.05
802.75
80.95
2,545.85
1,083.10
876.30
3,691.20
310.55
4,296.30
325.00
680.25
153.40
20,521.75
350.15
871.80
200.20
161.85
2,432.65
478.25
830.10
210.00
295.55
1,398.40
% Chg
1.04
1.76
0.40
-3.00
1.44
3.13
-3.12
-0.15
0.78
0.89
-2.72
-0.06
1.28
0.86
0.16
0.18
-0.08
1.05
2.13
-1.52
-1.57
-0.17
0.76
-0.37
0.19
0.43
0.92
-2.85
0.26
-3.69
-1.38
-1.50
0.53
-0.56
0.68
0.38
1.59
-1.48
0.00
0.31
0.32
0.08
0.68
1.03
-4.62
0.60
-0.07
1.47
-0.24
1.36
Volume
2,714,850
2,944,584
1,857,180
10,629,466
255,217
1,974,355
5,856,497
1,813,508
7,798,904
697,879
2,153,416
8,712,136
1,807,076
3,514,821
1,010,870
1,535,978
9,761,707
672,509
1,381,788
838,613
5,439,986
1,010,194
7,159,821
1,852,819
820,408
4,195,920
11,115,607
3,492,710
612,984
7,941,859
375,210
846,738
1,048,835
21,911
1,022,426
469,257
2,259,548
818,080
1,274,059
13,136
2,642,098
1,046,254
3,214,605
4,709,115
581,199
11,093,403
770,201
1,051,717
7,689,876
185,074
A man walks past a branch of Commerzbank in Frankfurt. Shares of the German bank yesterday rose 7.7% after its
announcement of dividend.
Europe markets lifted by

positive business surveys
Reuters
London
uropean shares had a positive

start to the week after business
surveys (PMIs) from around the
eurozone beat expectations, while
Commerzbanks better-than-expected results brightened a mixed picture
for earnings season.
Traders also noted supportive comments from the European Central Bank
(ECB) after its president, Mario Draghi,
said in an interview over the weekend
that it was ready to do what it takes to
keep its medium-term ination target
on course.
The pan-European FTSEurorst
300 index was up 0.3%, reversing early
losses after weak Chinese data sparked
global growth concerns, while the eurozones blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index was up 0.6% by 1443 GMT.
Weve seen some strong German
PMI gures which does breathe some
optimism back into the market, Charles

Hanover Investments advisory investment manager, Jonathan Roy, said, noting that investors were being driven back
into equities on the expectation of higher
earnings and more liquidity.
Greek shares outperformed as investors welcomed the outcome of ECB
stress tests on its four main banks.
Athens ATG index was up 2.9%,
lifted by gains of nearly 30% in Alpha
Bank and Eurobank , while Piraeus
Bank rose 19.4% and the National Bank
of Greece was up 8.7%.
The ECB assessment found that
the four banks had a collective capital
shortfall of 14.4bn euros, less than the
25bn maximum earmarked for bank recapitalisation as part of the countrys
latest bailout programme.
The Greek banking stress test
results released over the weekend
revealed that Greek banks are doing better than expected and consequently need less of a cash infusion
than originally thought, Peregrine &
HONG KONG
HONG KONG
Company Name
Aluminum Corp Of China Ltd-H
Bank Of East Asia
Bank Of China Ltd-H
Bank Of Communications Co-H
Belle International Holdings
Boc Hong Kong Holdings Ltd
Cathay Pacific Airways
Ck Hutchison Holdings Ltd
China Coal Energy Co-H
China Construction Bank-H
China Life Insurance Co-H
China Merchants Hldgs Intl
China Mobile Ltd
China Overseas Land & Invest
China Petroleum & Chemical-H
China Resources Beer Holdin
China Resources Land Ltd
China Resources Power Holdin
China Shenhua Energy Co-H
China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd
Citic Ltd
Clp Holdings Ltd
Cnooc Ltd
Cosco Pacific Ltd
Esprit Holdings Ltd
Fih Mobile Ltd
Hang Lung Properties Ltd
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
Henderson Land Development
Black sales trader Markus Huber said.

Huber said sentiment in European
stocks remained positive amid expectations of gains going into the end of
the year.
Among standout gainers, Commerzbank rose 7.7% after the German
bank said it would pay a dividend for
the rst time since 2007 as its recovery
gains ground.
But elsewhere in the sector, HSBC
fell 0.9% in spite of a better-than-expected 32% rise in pretax prot for the
third-quarter, thanks to reduced costs.
Electrolux dropped 5.6% after the
US Justice Department rejected the
Swedish appliance makers offer to
settle a ght over whether it would be
allowed to buy General appliance business.
French carmaker Renault rose 4.2%.
According to data published on Sunday, French car registrations rose 1% in
October, with Renault recovering some
lost ground, while rival PSA Peugeot
Citroen saw a fall.
Lt Price
2.41
28.40
3.57
5.65
7.45
24.55
15.12
103.70
3.37
5.55
27.20
25.40
92.40
25.85
5.53
14.50
20.85
16.92
12.98
9.40
14.30
66.85
8.61
10.03
8.82
3.67
18.58
141.20
48.45
% Chg
-3.98
-2.24
-2.72
-1.57
-1.19
-1.41
-2.07
-2.63
1.20
-1.42
-3.03
-1.74
-0.43
2.58
-0.36
-1.23
2.96
-3.97
-1.07
-1.78
-1.38
-0.96
-0.92
0.00
1.03
-1.08
-2.31
-0.98
-2.42
Volume
25,137,992
1,479,003
368,068,553
49,860,534
16,950,380
12,569,532
2,386,000
7,057,369
9,208,730
267,571,855
62,222,505
3,038,174
12,980,472
31,293,038
59,628,794
6,341,986
18,974,348
8,609,876
15,781,901
33,538,376
16,804,698
2,360,820
35,075,311
8,421,678
3,365,721
3,413,375
732,050
4,733,744
Company Name
Hong Kong & China Gas
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clear
Hsbc Holdings Plc
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd
Ind & Comm Bk Of China-H
Li & Fung Ltd
Mtr Corp
New World Development
Petrochina Co Ltd-H
Ping An Insurance Group Co-H
Power Assets Holdings Ltd
Sino Land Co
Sun Hung Kai Properties
Swire Pacific Ltd - Cl A
Tencent Holdings Ltd
Wharf Holdings Ltd
Lt Price
15.54
198.80
60.30
0.00
4.84
6.25
35.00
8.14
5.99
43.10
76.15
11.70
100.60
88.60
147.50
46.00
% Chg
-1.27
-2.45
-1.15
0.00
-2.22
-0.79
-0.57
-2.05
-1.16
-1.26
-1.55
-2.66
-3.18
-1.56
0.61
-0.76
Volume
8,026,470
4,998,864
20,381,613
271,492,646
15,315,990
2,715,074
13,943,351
55,307,995
32,607,771
1,997,040
6,456,345
6,441,224
2,536,724
10,822,588
1,902,033
GCC INDICES
Indices
Doha Securities Market
Saudi Tadawul
Kuwait Stocks Exchange
Bahrain Stock Exchage
Oman Stock Market
Abudhabi Stock Market
Dubai Financial Market
Lt Price
11,546.94
7,066.24
5,784.80
1,260.68
5,938.57
4,299.11
3,494.65
Change
-39.05
+20.47
+5.06
+9.41
-9.57
+0.39
+63.72
Information contained herein is believed to be reliable and had been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. The
accuracy and completeness cannot be guaranteed. This publication is for providing information only and is not intended
as an offer or solicitation for a purchase or sale of any of the financial instruments mentioned. Gulf Times and Doha Bank
or any of their employees shall not be held accountable and will not accept any losses or liabilities for actions based on
this data.
CURRENCIES
DOLLAR
QATAR RIYAL
SAUDI RIYAL
UAE DIRHAMS
BAHRAINI
DINAR
KUWAITI
DINAR
14
Gulf Times
BUSINESS
Royal Bank of
Canada scraps
limit on size
of newcomer
mortgages
Reuters
Vancouver
T
Shires manufacturing facility in Lexington, Massachusetts. The Dyax deal, the latest in a series of purchases by Shire, will give it access to the drug developers late-stage
experimental treatment for a dangerous inflammatory disease that can block breathing.
Shire agrees to buy

Dyax for $5.9bn,
still wants Baxalta
Reuters
London
hire has agreed to buy US rare disease specialist Dyax Corp for about
$5.9bn and potentially up to
$6.5bn while still pursuing a ve times
larger unsolicited bid for Baxalta.
The Dyax deal, the latest in a series
of purchases by the acquisitive Dublinheadquartered company, will give it access to the drug developers late-stage
experimental treatment for a dangerous inammatory disease that can block
breathing.
It comes amid a record wave of dealmaking in the broader healthcare sector so far this year, which amounted to
$477bn as of last week, according to
Thomson Reuters data.
The offer price of $37.30 per share represents a 35.5% premium to Dyaxs closing stock price on Friday.
Dyax shareholders will also get a

non-tradable contingent value right
potentially worth $4a share, or an additional $646mn, if Dyaxs DX-2930 drug,
which could reach the market in 2018,
is approved for hereditary angioedema
(HAE).
Shares in the US biotech firm
jumped to $36.75 in premarket trading
yesterday, while Shires stock in London fell 0.5%.
Shire has been locked in a three-month
battle to acquire Baxalta, although a drop
in its shares has led some investors to
suspect that takeover bid worth $30bn
when it was announced in August may
ounder.
But Shire Chief Executive Flemming
Ornskov insisted his group had capacity
to do both deals.
Even with this transaction, we will
continue to have the nancial repower
to pursue other value-added strategic
acquisitions, including Baxalta, he said.
Big banks cut euro and

German yield outlook
Reuters
London
ig investment banks are

cutting their forecasts
for the euro and eurozone
bond yields as the divergence
between US and eurozone monetary policy looks set to widen,
potentially in dramatic fashion
next month.
Morgan Stanley yesterday said
it now expects the single currency will fall to $1.03 early next
year, and Citi said 10-year the
German Bund yield could go as
low as 0.1%.
The forecasts assume the European Central Bank will expand
its quantitative easing bondbuying programme next month
and cut its deposit rate further
below zero.
Both US banks expect the
ECB to cut its deposit rate 10
basis points at its December 3
meeting to -0.3% and increase
its monthly asset purchases by
15bn to 75bn.
By contrast, the US Federal
Reserve is widely expected to
raise rates in coming months.
The chances are 50-50 it will
move at its next meeting, on December 15-16, according to current market pricing.
We expect the euro to come
under renewed selling pressure
going into the end of the year and
early next year as a result of the
increased potential for further
easing from the ECB, Morgan
Stanley currency strategist Ian
Stannard said.
Morgan Stanley forecasts the
euro at $1.03 by the end of the

rst quarter of next year, compared with $1.11 previously, and
ending next year at $1.00. Yesterday it was at $1.10.
For its part, Citi expects
the ECBs aggressive loosening to push Bund yields as low
as 0.1% within the next six
months. Its previous estimate
was 0.5-0.6%.
The ECB left policy unchanged at its last meeting, but
president Mario Draghi indicated that more action to ght off
the threat of deation is on the
cards, probably at its next meeting, on December 3.
The overwhelming view now
among economists and nancial
markets is that the ECBs 1tn
QE programme will be expanded
and extended and the deposit
rate cut.
The 10-year Bund yield fell to
a record low of 0.05% in April,
before snapping back above 1%
by early June in a so-called ash
crash. On Monday, it was hovering around 0.55%.
Citis 0.1% call is among the
most aggressive of the major investment banks. Earlier this year
it forecast -0.05% but abandoned that in May, saying that
it would close this year around
0.4%.
Last month, HSBC said the
Bund yield would go as low as
0.2% next year.
HSBCs euro forecast is the
outlier among the big banks. It
sees the euro rising to $1.20 next
year because the Fed wont raise
rates as high or as fast as markets
expect.
Ornskov declined to give further details on his strategy for winning Baxalta,
which has spurned Shires approach.
However, Jefferies analysts said that
since Dyax was a debt-funded cash deal
there was no direct impact on Shires
ability to do an all-equity Baxalta acquisition.
Dyax already has one HAE drug on
the market, called Kalbitor, but its
sales totalled only $68mn last year and
consensus analyst forecasts do not
predict it will exceed annual sales of
$100mn, according to Thomson Reuters Cortellis.
By contrast, Shire believes DX2930 has potential to expand the
number of HAE patients treated and
achieve annual worldwide sales of up
to $2bn, while enjoying exclusivity
beyond 2030.
The new drug will complement Shires
own existing HAE treatments Firazyr
and Cinryze, which are two of its fast-
growing products, with combined sales

approaching $1bn. Given its existing
HAE presence, Ornskov acknowledged
the deal would be scrutinised by antitrust authorities and he said Shire was
already preparing for this.
Shire expects small operating synergies in 2016, rising to $50mn in 2017
and growing to at least $100mn in 2019.
Adding Dyax is expected to hit earnings
slightly in 2016 and 2017 but boost them
from 2018.
Shire has secured a $5.6bn bank loan,
which, in addition to the amount undrawn under a $2.1bn revolving credit
facility, will be available to nance the
transaction, which is expected to close in
the rst half of 2016.
Deutsche Bank, Evercore and Morgan
Stanley advised Shire, while Centerview
Partners acted for Dyax.
Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley
are also providing Shire with nancing
for the deal.
he Royal Bank of Canada

scrapped an internal limit
on mortgage loan size
for immigrants in the spring to
tap into surging demand for nancing on multi-million dollar
houses by newcomers to Vancouver.
Wealthy buyers, mostly from
China, are fuelling a booming
mortgage business in Vancouver, where the median price for
a detached home on the desirable west side jumped 31% to
C$2.87mn ($2.19mn) in the last
two years.
RBC, Canadas largest bank,
removed its C$1.25mn cap on
loans to borrowers with no local
credit history in May, said Christine Shisler, the banks Director of
Multicultural Markets, who works
with an immigrant clientele.
Were seeing a lot of affluent
newcomers looking to buy highpurchase price homes, she said.
Now we can actually service
any mortgage amount.
A case study released on Monday, which looked at six months
worth of detached home sales in
prime neighbourhoods near the
University of British Columbia
(UBC) main campus, found that
two-thirds of buyers had names
typical of people from mainland
China and 88% of those people
also had a mortgage.
The mortgages, on homes
ranging in value from C$1.25mn
to more than C$9mn, were
mainly backed by three banks HSBC Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
and Bank of Montreal (BMO).
RBC held just 8% of the loans.
The banks have not broken out
the size or protability of this
business segment.
Andy Yan, an urban planner
and adjunct professor at UBC
who studied land titles linked to
172 sales transactions from Aug.
2014 to Feb. 2015, said the nancing was the most surprising
part of the study.
It counters a lot of our mythologies, in terms of this idea
of people showing up with very
large bags of money and paying

cash, he said.
While there is no official data
on foreign ownership in Canada,
realtors who work in Vancouvers
luxury market say more than
80% of buyers have ties to mainland China, with demand strong
despite this summers Chinese
stock market plunge and President Xi Jinpings corruption
crackdown.
Yans case study, using a name
analysis method pioneered in
public health and academic
studies, found that 66% of buyers in his sample had non-Anglicized Chinese names. A separate Reuters survey of land titles
linked to sales in a broader swath
of Vancouver west had a near
identical result.
To be sure, some of these individuals could be Canadian
citizens or long-time residents,
though Yan notes the majority
have ambiguous job titles like
homemaker or businessperson, which may point to money
being earned abroad.
Indeed, the most common occupation for the new owners of
these multi-million dollar properties was homemaker.
That raises questions over
how banks, in the rush to tap
into the market, are not only
ensuring their clients have the
means to make hefty mortgage
payments, but also whether they
have enough information on the
source of funds.
I do worry that were being
friendly, polite Canadians and
not asking too many questions,
said David Eby, the provincial
lawmaker for the Vancouver
neighbourhood in Yans study.
There are a lot of people making
a lot of money right now.
Both RBC and HSBC Canada
said that anti-money laundering
compliance is a priority, though
declined to provide specic details on how exactly they ensure legitimacy of funds. CIBC
and BMO did not immediately
provide comment on their newcomer mortgage policies.
We have a very low tolerance for risk, said Aurora Bonin, a spokeswoman for HSBC in
Vancouver.
A pharmacists dirty socks are

key to cutting Pfizer tax bill
Bloomberg
New York
If Pfizer succeeds in buying Allergan - and
avoids billions of dollars in taxes - it can
give a tip of the hat to a Northern Irish
pharmacist named Allen McClay.
In 1968, McClay started a drug company
in Craigavon, a half-hours drive from
Belfast. Not one to stand on ceremony,
he sometimes held employee meetings
while he peeled potatoes in the company
kitchen. After McClay took his Galen
Holdings public in 1997, he became one of
his countrys most active philanthropists
and was knighted by the Queen.
But his company may have a bigger
impact than McClay, who died in 2010,
ever would have guessed. Galen has
turned into a vessel that has allowed
four successively larger American drug
companies to pull their operations out
from under the US tax regime. Pfizer, the
worlds largest drug company, could be
the fifth to renounce its US corporate
citizenship and reduce its corporate
taxes.
How a small drugmaker in Northern
Ireland could poke such a hole in the
US Treasury illuminates the bizarre
US corporate tax system. It allows
foreign-owned multinational companies
operating in the US to pay lower taxes
than domestically owned ones. Since
2004, most US companies have been
prohibited from simply declaring
themselves foreign to erase the
disadvantage. Instead, many of them
are buying a foreign address through a
merger abroad, in transactions known as
inversions.
The dealmaking began not long after
McClay left Galen Holdings in 2001.
The chief executive officer, Roger

Boissonneault, carried out a leveraged
buyout and switched the companys legal
address from Craigavon to Bermuda
and then to Dublin, in the tax-friendly
Republic of Ireland. Meanwhile, he ran
the company from New Jersey.
In 2009, Boissonneault struck a deal to

buy a drug business from Ohio-based
Procter & Gamble Co that more than
doubled the companys size - while
cutting the P&G units tax bills.
Then in 2013, he sold the company to
Actavis, based not far away from his
offices in New Jersey. Although Actavis

was bigger, it was able to adopt the Irish
address - and low tax rate - under US tax
rules.
Over the next two years, Actavis made
two other big US deals, acquiring Forest
Laboratories and Allergan, the maker
of Botox. Between the two of them, the
deals more than doubled Actavis sales
again. And they generated about half a
billion dollars of annual tax savings. The
combined company is now known as
Allergan.
How could companies save so much
just by becoming Irish? The US has
the highest corporate tax rate in the
developed world - 35% - combined with
an unusual policy of taxing the income
of US companies foreign subsidiaries.
Foreign- owned companies can minimize
US taxes by keeping their US operations
separate from the rest of their corporate
structure; US Corps dont have this
option. Many companies that invert
choose Ireland, with its lower corporate
income tax rate of 12.5%, or the UK, which
doesnt tax foreign earnings.
Its unclear what terms are under
discussion, but its likely that New Yorkbased Pfizer, the bigger company, would
adopt Allergans Irish address.
An analyst estimated that a similar deal
proposed by Pfizer last year to become
British would lower its tax bill by about
$1.4bn a year. Spokesmen for the two
companies declined to comment.
When McClay retired in 2001 and sold
his stake, he said he was dismayed by
a new focus on the US market and job
cuts in its Northern Ireland operation.
According to the Financial Times, he
called the decision as easy as taking off
dirty socks. Those socks turned out to
be quite valuable, on American feet.
Gulf Times
15
BUSINESS
Central banks stimulus fails to

spur global factory growth
Reuters
London/Sydney
assive monetary stimulus

from Chinese and European
central banks has done little to
spur factory growth, moving a debate
over more easing up the agenda and
raising doubts over whether US interest rates will rise this year.
A crop of industry surveys out yesterday pointed to October as another
subdued month. Activity in Chinas
colossal factory sector shrank as global
demand stuttered while eurozone factories again resorted to slashing prices
to drum up trade.
We do think there is more easing to
come in China. They are in the midst
of a long-running easing cycle that is
probably going to go on until late next
year, said Andrew Kenningham at
Capital Economics.
The ECB is likely to announce something further in December. The concerns
there are not so much about growth but
about the prospects for ination.
More than half a year after the ECB
started pumping in 60bn a month of
new money through its quantitative
easing programme, the currency blocs
relatively downbeat manufacturing
survey may make disappointing reading for policymakers.
The central bank has failed to lift ination anywhere near its target of just below 2%, and data on Friday showed prices were unchanged last month, heaping
more pressure on the bank to act.
It was already almost certain the
ECB would ease monetary policy in
December, increasing or extending its

stimulus programme and further cutting the deposit rate, a Reuters poll of
economists taken ahead of the ination
data found. Beijing has also rolled out a
raft of support steps to avert a sharper
slowdown, including cutting interest
rates six times in the past year, but the
stimulus has been slower to take effect
than in the past.
The pedestrian surveys will focus attention on the US Institute for Supply
Management (ISM) measure of manufacturing due later Monday which is

forecast to have atlined in October.
Having taken a rain check on a longspeculated rate rise in September, the
Federal Reserve last month surprised
markets by downplaying global growth
worries while opening the door wide to
a hike in December.
One of the reasons they didnt move
in September was concerns about the
state of the global economy and par-
ticularly China. Our view is that most

likely they will wait until next year but
they may decide to move in December,
Capital Economics Kenningham said.
Stocks fell in Europe and Asia on
Monday after the further evidence of
economic slowdown in China.
Markits nal eurozone manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index was
52.3 last month, only slightly up from
the September and preliminary October
reading of 52.0. It has, however, been
above the 50 mark that separates growth

from contraction for over two years.
There was only modest growth in
Germany, Europes largest economy,
though Italy stood out with activity
increasing for the ninth straight month
and at its fastest pace since July,
In China, manufacturing industry
unexpectedly contracted for a third
straight month, according to the ofcial survey out on Sunday, just missing market hopes for a break-even
50.0 reading, while new export orders
shrank again.
Yesterdays Caixin/Markit China
PMI, which focuses on small and midsized companies, rose. But at 48.3 in
October, it still pointed to an eighth
month of contraction. Overall, the at
PMI suggests the still-weak underlying
growth momentum in Q4 and we continue to look for more signs of nearterm growth stabilisation, said Jian
Chang at Barclays.
The only promising news came from
Japan and Britain. The Markit/Nikkei
PMI hit its highest in a year at 52.4, yet
its economy remains at risk of recession and markets are betting the Bank
of Japan will have to expand its assetbuying campaign.
In Britain, which doesnt use the
euro, factory activity unexpectedly
surged to a 16-month high helped by
a recovery in export orders although
economists remained cautious.
We hesitate to conclude from Octobers Markit/CIPS manufacturing survey that the sectors recession is over,
said Samuel Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics. In one line: take with a
pinch of salt.
Visa to buy
Visa Europe in
21.2bn deal
Reuters
London
isa said yesterday it

would buy former subsidiary Visa Europe in
a deal valued at up to 21.2bn
($23.34bn), putting the company
in a stronger position to compete
with MasterCard.
Visa, the worlds largest credit
and debit card company, said
it would pay 16.5bn up front,
with potential for an additional
payment of up to 4.7bn based
on revenue targets four years after the close of the deal.
The upfront payment comprises 11.5bn in cash and preferred stock convertible into
Visa class A common stock valued at 5bn.
Visa will issue senior unsecured debt worth $15bn-$16bn
to fund the cash portion of the
deal and increase a buyback program for Class A common stock
in 2016 and 2017 to offset the
effects of issuing the preferred
stock.
The company, whose shares
were down 1.3% at $76.54 in
premarket trading, said it would
buy back an additional $5bn of
shares in addition to a previously
announced 17% increase in its
quarterly dividend.
Visa and Visa Europe, a cooperative of European banks with
over 500mn cards, were part of
a global bank-owned network
until 2007.
Most of the units merged to
form Visa, which went public in
2008, leaving Visa Europe as a
separate entity.
CORPORATE RESULTS
Nissan half-year profit jumps 37%, boosts annual outlook

Diamond, which also reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday, said the extension of
term will add $333mn to the companys revenue
backlog.
The terminated contracts will reduce revenue
backlog by about $91mn, the company said. While
one of the rigs terminated will be cold-stacked, the
other will be scrapped.
Diamond, like most of its rivals, has been scrapping
rigs and cutting costs in the face of weak demand
due to a steep fall in global crude prices.
However, the company also said on Monday it
booked a one-year contract for a rig in the UK North
Sea at $220,000 per day, starting March 2016.
Diamonds third-quarter profit more than doubled
to $136.4mn, or 99 cents per share, helped mainly
by lower expenses and improved rig dayrates.
Commerzbank
Nissan yesterday raised its full-year forecasts, citing new model rollouts along with upbeat sales in
North America and Europe that offset weakness in
the home market.
The Altima sedan maker said it would post a record
net profit of 535bn ($4.5bn) in the fiscal year to
March 2016, up about 17% from the year-earlier
result, while operating profit and sales would also
come in higher than forecast.
The boost came as the automaker reported that
its latest six-month sales and profit figures jumped
from last year, as it also pointed to the benefit of a
weak yen and cost-cutting.
Nissan sold 2.62mn vehicles globally in the six
months to September, ticking up 1.3%. Its half-year
profit jumped 37% to 325.6bn.
Strong demand for new products in North America
and Western Europe, combined with the benefits
of continued cost discipline and the yen correction against the US dollar, offset declining market
conditions in Japan and several emerging markets,
it said. Japanese automakers have benefited significantly from healthy growth seen in the US market
with low interest rates, while the weaker yen has
made them relatively more competitive overseas
and inflated the value of repatriated overseas
profits.
Sales have been sluggish in their home market,
however, after a sales tax rise last year dented consumer spending and as younger urban residents
delayed buying a vehicle.
Unit sales in China, the worlds biggest vehicle
market, rose 5.7% in the last half-year period,
although the company said it struggled in the light
commercial vehicle business.
Noble Energy
Oil and gas producer Noble Energy, which acquired
Rosetta Resources in a $2bn deal earlier this year,
raised its sales forecast for the current quarter,
while cutting its 2015 capital budget by $100mn.
Oil and gas producers are curtailing spending and
cutting operating and other costs to weather a
nearly 60% drop in crude oil prices since June last
year.
Noble reported a larger-than-expected quarterly
loss yesterday, hurt by the slump in prices.
Noble, which operates in the US shale fields and
offshore Gulf of Mexico, Eastern Mediterranean and

West Africa, said it now plans to spend less than
$3bn this year.
The company raised its fourth-quarter sales volume
forecast to 385,000-405,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) from 375,000-400,000 boepd.
Sales volume in the third quarter was 379,000
boepd. Noble said third-quarter sales volumes
lagged production by 4,000 barrels per day due
to the timing of lifting of some oil and natural gas
liquids from its operations in Equatorial Guinea.
Bankia
Bailed-out Spanish lender Bankia said yesterday
it had whittled down its bad debts further in the
third quarter, though like its peers it is struggling to
benefit from a recovering economy as loan demand
dwindles.
Bankias net lending fell again from the second
quarter to the third, and was down 2.2% from January to September.
Its net interest income (NII), a closely watched
measure of earnings from loans minus deposit
costs, was also down in the third quarter from a
year ago and from the previous three months.
Spains job market is starting to slowly pick up
after a deep recession, while a revival in consumer
spending is helping to spur economic growth,
brightening the outlook for banks which were hit
hard by loan defaults during the financial crisis.
Bankia, which came to symbolise the sectors
woes when it needed a state rescue in 2012, has
recovered dramatically and it said yesterday it was
well on course to meet its 2015 profitability targets,
helped by falling charges.
However, the banks results also point to some of
the enduring problems weighing on Spains turnaround, which according to economists may have
already peaked.
Diamond Offshore
Diamond Offshore Drilling, one of the worlds
top-five offshore rig contractors, said contracts for
two rigs with Brazils Petrobras had ended ahead of
schedule.
The company said it had secured an 875-day extension on another rig working for the Brazilian oil and
gas producer in exchange for the terminations.
Commerzbank will pay a dividend for the first time

since 2007 as its recovery gains ground, it said
yesterday, the day after its chief executive, architect
of the banks turnaround, said he would step down
in a years time.
The bank has accrued 250mn ($275mn) for the
payout but Chief Financial Officer Stephan Engels
said it would be difficult to post a net profit of more
than 1bn euros this year.
In the third quarter Commerzbank posted a pretax
profit of 401mn, topping an average forecast of
349mn as its retail bank thrived, provisions for
bad loans fell and its portfolio of unwanted assets
broke even.
Commerzbank shares, down 90% since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, rose
6.9% by 1115, while the European bank sector was
up 0.6%. Martin Blessing, the only CEO of a German
state-rescued bank to remain in power, had skirted
questions on his future, but said on Sunday he
would leave after his contract expires in October
2016, adding it was time for someone else to take
over running the bank.
When we pay a dividend in the spring of 2016 we
will be a completely normal bank again, Blessing
said in a note to staff on Monday, adding the sole
motive for his departure was to seek a new professional challenge.
Some investors and analysts however said his move
was overdue. Investors have bled a lot in past
years. A new CEO should come in from outside the
bank with a new vision, a perspective on issues like
cost structures, a top 20 shareholder said.
Intertrust
Intertrust, the Dutch trust and corporate services
firm, reported a rise in third-quarter revenue and
operating profit yesterday, citing strong demand for
its services.
By helping set up and administering trust companies, Intertrust helps multinationals that wish to
minimize their taxes do so in a way that complies
with the law.
It was Intertrusts first earnings report as a
public company after it joined the Euronext stock
exchange last month. Revenue was up 20% at
87.3mn ($96mn) in the third quarter from the
same period a year ago, while adjusted earnings
before interest, taxes, and amortisation of goodwill
was up 20% at 34.7mn.
The company said it expected revenues to increase
at a similar pace in the fourth quarter, while margins would improve modestly.
CEO David de Buck said the company was not
expecting to lose business as a result of new standards on profit shifting by multinationals recently set
by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development, or by recent findings by the Euro-
pean Union that tax deals the Netherlands and Luxembourg struck with Starbucks and Amazon were
illegal. No, were not concerned about changes of
the attractiveness of our two main jurisdictions,
De Buck said. Thats also not what we see when we
look at the pipeline of our business.
He said Intertrusts revenues would increase in the
coming years on a mix of growth and acquisitions
outside the Cayman Islands and Guernsey, where it
also has significant operations.
Ryanair
Irish airline Ryanairs first-half net profits soared by
nearly 40% on keen demand, the strong pound, fuel
savings and poor weather conditions in northern
Europe, it said yesterday.
The Dublin-based carrier added in a results statement that it was on target to hit the upper end of
its annual earnings forecast, aided also by ongoing
improvements to customer services.
Earnings after taxation jumped 37% to 1.09bn
($1.2bn) in the six months to the end of September,
compared with 795mn a year earlier.
Passenger numbers swelled 13% to 58.1mn people
and revenues grew 14% to 4.04bn.
We have enjoyed a bumper summer due to a very
rare confluence of favourable events including
stronger sterling, adverse weather in northern Europe, reasonably flat industry capacity and further
savings on our unhedged fuel, said chief executive
Michael OLeary.
He added that the airlines Always Getting Better customer services programme was driving
stronger forward bookings, higher load factors
and accelerating traffic growth.
Ryanair predicted full-year net profit would be
towards the upper end of its forecast range of
between 1.175bn-1.225bn.
Westpac
Australian banking giant Westpac yesterday
posted a 6% rise in full-year net profit to a record
Aus$8.01bn ($5.7bn) with retail and business banking driving performance.
The cash profit at Australias second largest bank,
the measure more closely watched by analysts
which strips out volatile items, lifted three% to
Aus$7.82bn. Australian retail and business banking
has been the key driver of performance, said chief
executive Brian Hartzer, as Westpac joined other

leading banks ANZ and NAB reporting major profits.
All divisions continued to grow their businesses
and are in good shape, he said.
However, despite strong loan figures, market
headwinds saw a softer performance in wealth and
institutional businesses, Hartzer added.
Westpac reported the same figures in full year preliminary results in mid-October, when it announced
a $3.5bn equity raising to meet tougher regulations
on reserves as a buffer against mortgage risks.
Ric Spooner, chief market analyst for CMC Markets,
said the profit result held few surprises.
The potential for slower growth in housing lending
will be a negative for banks, he said.
HSBC
HSBC profit jumped by a third in the latest quarter
as a drop in fines for past misconduct more than
offset the impact of a slowdown in Asia and increased spending on regulatory compliance.
Europes biggest bank also said yesterday that it will
step up its push into investment banking activity on
the Chinese mainland by establishing a majorityowned securities venture in the country.
Costs related to fines and compensation for
customers fell by $1.4bn in the three months to
September 30 from a year ago, marking the banks
progress on conduct issues that have marred
recent quarterly results.
Yet the London-based bank spent $2.2bn on
regulation and compliance in the first nine months
of 2015, up 33% year on year, even as the British
government looks to take a more accommodative
stance towards the industry.
HSBCs underlying revenue fell 4% year on year to
$15.1bn compared, with plunging stock markets and
slowing economic growth hitting its business in
Asia, including its Hong Kong powerhouse.
HSBC management have done a very good job of
trying to correct its internal problems, but these
results show no bank can improve revenues if the
global economy is against it, said Jim Antos, analyst at Mizuho Securities Asia in Hong Kong.
The bank posted third-quarter profit of $6.1bn,
up from $4.6bn and above the average analyst
forecast of $5.2bn.
Adjusted profit fell 14% to $5.5bn, taking into account the lower fines and other one-off items.
BUSINESS
GULF TIMES
Al-Attiyah does not see

oil at $100 anytime soon
By Pratap John
Chief Business Reporter
E Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah

has said higher oil prices are not
always good for producers or
consumers and that he does not see the
oil price rising to $100 a barrel again anytime soon.
We should forget that level of prices
for the time being, said al-Attiyah on the
sidelines of the formal launch of The Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Foundation
for Energy & Sustainable Development
here on Sunday night.
I always believed, based on my knowledge of the market that prices in the hydrocarbon industry go in a cycle they
never stay high or low for a long time. In
my years in the industry, I saw cycles lasting an average of 15 years. I saw how the oil
price works, up in the rst shock of 1973,
then down in 1985. Then it also took 15
years to recover in 2000.
For the last 10 years the oil price was
high because India and China entered the
market, as big industrial nations, with
very high demand. And they bought huge
volumes. But because prices go in a cycle,
I dont see the oil price rising to $100 a
barrel again anytime soon, said al-Attiyah, chairman of the foundation.
On the importance of the producer
consumer dialogue at a time of grave
challenges for the energy sector, al-Attiyah, the former Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Energy and Industry said,
Dialogue is very important, producers
need to know what the demand forecasts
are going to be so they can make the right
investments and consumers need to know
if there is adequate supply. This balance
is hard to achieve without dialogue. It is
always a challenge to work out how producers and consumers can create a formula for stabilisation and avoiding shocks
in the oil and gas markets. How can they
work together, how can they both benet?
We in Qatar always support greater
cooperation between producing and consuming countries and I believe that the
traditional confrontation between them
should be left in the past. We should not
waste time blaming each other and should
seek solutions to ensure security of sup-
HH the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani launches the inaugural industry report produced by The Abdullah Bin Hamad
Al Attiyah Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development. PICTURES: Thajuddin
ply, stability of prices and the curtailment
of greenhouse gas emissions.
On his approach towards the international oil companies, al-Attiyah said he
rmly believed in maintain good relationship with IOCs.
I am a big believer in not just signing contracts, but in making sure that we
maintain a good relationship, friendship,
understanding and trust directly with our
partners and customers.
That is why I introduced to QP the
transparent policy, including the ethics law and the conict of interest law. I
asked all our employees, including myself
to sign them. We told all our partners and

customers that they have to sign a legal
document stating that no middlemen
or intermediaries will be involved in our
relationship and that they work directly
with QP with no agents or promoters.
We created a direct business relationship with them without agents or middlemen, the people who corrupt the energy
sectors in many parts of the world.
Al-Attiyah said when he had become
the minister he told the IOCs that we
should stop being at war.
If you dont beat me and I cannot beat
you, join me, I told them. In the 1970s and
1980s, there was always conict between

the IOCs and the National Oil Companies.
We had the reserves and the opportunities, while the IOCs had the nance and
the technology. I am very proud we came
together.
We gave them production-sharing
agreements. In the old days they were
called concessions, but we refused to call
them concessions, we changed the model
to production sharing agreements. We
said we would not go back to imperialist
days. Many countries came to see us for
our production sharing agreements and
they started using this model.
Abdullah Bin Hamad

Al Attiyah Foundation
seeks to become a
leading think-tank
HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah
wishes to see The Abdullah Bin
Hamad Al Attiyah Foundation For
Energy and Sustainable Development becoming the leading
think-tank in the region and one
of the leading institutions in the
world in energy and sustainable
development.
The foundation will aim to
give advice and share knowledge,
while specialising in research and
analysis. We will create workshops, white papers, seminars
and studies about energy - How
do we deal with the market, with
oversupply, demand and prices?
he said during the launch of the
function on Sunday night.
I am a man who smells energy,
lives energy. I cannot change! I
am not a businessman and never
worked in business. I decided after
more than 40 years in the energy
industry to create the foundation,
he said.
On the important focus areas
of the foundation he said, We will
advise governments and companies on how to build their own
projects, how to cut the fat in their
expenses, how to avoid market
shocks, how to be prepared, how
to make the right calculations and
how to plan ahead both in the
short term and the long term.
We want people to knock on
our door with questions which we
will aim to answer based on our
vast experience. The foundation
will have leading experts from
around the world, thinking clearly
without the burdens and pressures of bureaucracy, budgets or
politics.
Al-Attiyah said developing the
energy industry in Qatar was not
easy at the start.
We had to educate ourselves,
but we learned quickly. We should
not deny that our foreign partners
gave us a lot of technical support that helped us to develop.
Now we are very proud that our
energy industry is fully managed
by Qataris as chief executive
officers, and that we have created
very successful technical and
commercial teams. We started
to create scholarships for Qataris

and sent hundreds to study at
good universities especially in the
United States, including the current Qatar Petroleum CEO Saad
Sherida al-Kaabi.
Our mission was to prepare
young Qataris who can face
the challenges of the future.
Foreigners come then leave, but
citizens never leave. You cannot
just build your future on foreign
expertise.
Most of the engineering graduates came back to work in Qatars
energy sector. Today we are also
very proud that we have a lot
of Qatari women working in the
industry as engineers.
The scholarship programme
continues until now and we are
still developing strategic links with
educational institutions within
Qatar to increase the number of
home grown engineers and other
specialists. This is not a quick fix,
but it will build up the national
knowledge base going into the
future.
Qatar, he said, has expanded
the industry very quickly and today QP has many subsidiaries, all
trying to employ more Qataris.
We have several strategies for
ensuring that we have the human
resources that we need to keep
pace with our ambitious expansion programmes.
Now even our foreign partners
are hiring Qataris; they also give
us a lot of technical support and
we use their training centres to
train our nationals. That is a big
change from the 1960s, 1970s and
1980s when the IOCs resisted the
idea of employing nationals.
HH the Father Emir with HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, al-Attiyah, al-Naimi and ministers
and other dignitaries at the event.
HH the Father Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani with Saudi Arabias Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi at the
launch of The Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development at the
Sheraton on Sunday night.
Dr Ibrahim B Ibrahim, economic adviser to HH the Emir, highlights the objectives and goals of The
Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development at the event.
HE the Minister of Energy and Industry, Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada, HE the Minister of Economy and Commerce Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim
bin Mohamed al-Thani and prominent Qatari entrepreneur Sheikh Faisal bin Qassem al-Thani at the event.
To Advertise here
Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621
BASEBALL | Page 6
TENNIS | Page 8
Royals reign
after beating
Mets in World
Series
Bellucci sets
up Djokovic
clash at Paris
Masters

FOOTBALL
Barca, Real set for

CL last 16; Chelsea,
Arsenal seek wins
GULF TIMES
SPORT
Page 9
FINA AIRWEAVE SWIMMING WORLD CUP
Le Clos takes three gold;

mixed bag for Hosszu
Hungarian Iron Lady wins two gold medals but is pushed back to a silver and a bronze in two other events
By Sahan Bidappa
Doha
oming into the Doha leg of the

FINA World Cup, Chad Le Clos
had said he was nowhere near
his best. The South African
swimming sensation had missed the
Asian leg of the World Cup series, and
only conrmed his participation for the
Doha and Dubai leg.
The 23-year-old has been going
through demanding training sessions
with next years Rio Olympics in mind,
which he said had been taking a lot out
of him. But when in the pool, Le Clos
is a beast, and at the Hamad Aquatic
Centre yesterday, he showed, even
when not in his elements, he can still
scoop gold medals at will.
On the rst day of the event, the
London Olympic buttery champion
emerged victorious comfortably in the
mens 100m freestyle, 50m and 200m
buttery.
The 100m freestyle saw the return of
200m freestyle Olympic champion Yannick Agnel of France, who was forced to
withdraw from the World Championships this summer due to illness. But it
was Le Clos, who stole the limelight.
The South African was second at the
halfway mark, but in the nal 50 metres
it was all Le Clos, who won gold in a
time of 48.96 seconds.
Federico Grabich of Argentina took
silver posting a time of 49.39 followed
by Frenchman Jeremy Stravius (49.42),
with Agnel (49.65) managing only fth.
Next up for Le Clos was 200m buttery and he led the pool in a time of
1:55.80. Viktor Bromer of Denmark nished second in a time of 1:56.30 ahead
of Australian Chris Wright, who recorded a 1:57.03.
Le Clos nished off his night with a
third victory in the 50m buttery, timing 23.43, which beat his seasons best
of 23.50. American Giles Smith nished
second in a time of 23.58, while Serbian
Ivan Lender collected the bronze in a
time of 23.87.
Meanwhile, womens World Cup
points leader Katinka Hosszu had a mixed
fortune. The Hungarians busy schedule
means her energy level goes down as she
ticks of one event after the other.
Yesterday, the Iron Lady took two
gold, one silver and a bronze. The
26-year-old won the 200m freestyle
and 200m individual medley, but was
beaten hands down in backstroke
events by world champion Emily Seebohm of Australia.
Hosszu started off by winning the
200m freestyle in a time of 1:56.60,
nishing ahead of Italian Federica Pellegrini, who won the silver in this event
South Africas Chad Le Clos in action on day one of the FINA airweave Swimming World Cup at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha yesterday. PICTURES: Anas Khalid
Qatar Swimming Association president Khalil al-Jaber watches the day one
proceedings of the FINA airweave Swimming World Cup yesterday.
at the World Championships in Kazan.
Pellegrini recorded 1:58.06 for silver,
ahead of Coralie Balmy of France, who
touched in 1:58.92.
Hosszu is hard to beat in the medley
events, and she showed it by winning
the 200m with ease. She clocked 2:10.22
to nish ahead of American Caitlin Leverenz (2:11.08). Sakiko Shimizu of Japan
took bronze in a time of 2:12.56.
But it was Seebohm, who would have
been in Hosszus mind as she went to
sleep last night, as the Australian continued to roll in the backstroke events.
In the 50m, Seebohm posted a winning time of 27.85, while Hosszu could
only come third in 28.40. American
Natalie Coughlin nished second in a
time of 28.23.
Later in the night, Seebohm was back
to haunt Hosszu in the 200m, where
she won in a 2:07.19. In fact, Seebohm
trailed Hosszu going into the nal 50
metres, but out split the Hungarian by
almost two seconds posting a 30.87

compared to Hosszus 32.67. Hosszu
nished second in a time of 2:08.73,
while Daryna Zevina of the Ukraine nished third in a time of 2:11.05.
Australian Mitchell Larkin, the top
swimmer at the Tokyo stop of the World
Cup last week with world-leading times
in the 100m and 200m backstrokes, continued his domination in Doha.
The world champion posted a 52.26
in the mens 100m backstroke. Larkin
beat the time of 52.40 which he won
the event with at 2015 World Championships. The Australian turned at the
halfway mark in a time of 25.32, three
one-hundredths of a second ahead of
American Aaron Peirsols world record
pace.
He was not able to sustain the world
record pace nishing 27 one-hundredths of a second off of Perisols
world record time of 51.94, which he
posted in 2009.
Mourinho handed stadium ban and fine

Reuters
London
helsea manager Jose Mourinho

has been given a one-match
stadium suspension with immediate effect and fined 40,000 pounds
($61,680.00) over a misconduct charge,
the Football Association said yesterday.
The Portuguese admitted an FA charge
relating to his language and/or behaviour towards the match officials during
his sides 2-1 defeat by West Ham
United on October 24.
Mourinho was sent to the stands at
Upton Park after trying to speak to
referee Jon Moss at halftime following

Nemanja Matics first-half red card.
It is the latest blow for Mourinho, who
is under pressure with Chelsea 15th in
the Premier League having lost six of
their opening 11 matchesthe worst
start by any defending Premier League
champions.
They are labouring in the Champions
League, in which they face Dynamo
Kiev on Wednesday, and out of the
League Cup.
Mourinho has also been named as a
respondent in the legal action being
brought against the club by their
former team doctor Eva Carneiro for
constructive dismissal, sources close to
the case said on Monday.

He will be forced to miss Saturdays
trip to Stoke City, who beat Chelsea on
penalties in the League Cup last week.
The latest punishment is separate from
the one-match suspended stadium ban
and 50,000 fine Mourinho received
earlier this season for comments about
match officials following Chelseas 3-1 Premier League defeat to Southampton.
Chelsea coach Silvino Louro had a
charge of improper conduct relating
to the West Ham game withdrawn,
the FA said in a statement on its website. But the governing body added
that it had reminded Louro of his
responsibilities.
Hungarys Katinka Hosszu (centre) celebrates her gold medal-winning effort in the
womens 200m freestyle event along with silver medallist Federic Pellegrini (left)
of Italy and bronze medallist Coralie Balmy of France on the podium yesterday.
With his time, Larkin also set
new Commonwealth and Australian
records. American David Plummer n-
ished second in a time of 53.18, while

Japans Masaki Kaneko (54:33) took
bronze.
RESULTS
Mens 100m freestyle
1. Chad le Clos (South Africa) 48:96
2. Federico Grabich (Argentina) 49:39
3. Jeremy Stravius (France) 49:42
Womens 200m freestyle
1. Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) 1:56:60
2. Federica Pellegrini (Italy) 1:58:06
3. Coralie Balmy (France) 1:58:92
Mens 50m breaststroke
1. Cameron Van Der Burgh (South
Africa) 26:96
2. Giulio Zorzi (South Africa) 27:69
3. Codes Cavin (USA) 27:81
Womens 100m breaststroke
1. Molly Hannis (USA) 1:06:94
2. Alia Atkinson (Jamaica) 1:07:83
3. Leiston Pickett (Australia) 1:08:15
Womens 100m butterfly
1. Felicia Lee (USA) 58:83
2. Zsuzsanna Jakabos (Hungary) 58:98
3. Cassidy Bayer (USA) 59:52
Mens 100m backstroke
1. Mitchell Larkin (Australia) 52:26
2. David Plummer (USA) 53:18
3. Masaki Kaneko (Japan) 54:33
Womens 50m backstroke
1. Emily Seebohm (Australia) 27:85
2. Natalie Coughlin (USA) 28:23
3. Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) 28:40
Mens 200m butterfly
1. Chad Le Clos (South Africa) 1:55:80
2. Viktor Bromer (Denmark) 1:56:30
3. Geoffrey Wright (Australia) 1:57:03
Womens 200m individual medley
2. Caitlin Leverenz (USA) 2:11:08
3. Sakiko Shimizu (Japan) 2:12:50
Mens 400m freestyle
1. George Guy (Great Britain) 3:46:76
2. Velimir Stjepanovic (Serbia) 3:38:70
3. Alistair Milne (Great Britain) 3:48:74
1. Anna Santamans (France) 24:95
2. Melanie Wright (Australia) 25:05
3. Natalie Coughline (USA) 25:40
Mens 200m breaststroke
1. Daniel Gyurta (Hungary) 2:10:33
2. Oleg Kostin (Russia) 2:11:44
3. Cameron Van Der Burgh (South
Africa) 2:12:14
Womens 200m backstroke
1. Emily Seebhom (Australia) 2:07:19
3. Daryna Zevina (Ukraine) 2:1:05
Mens 50m butterfly
1. Chad Le Clos (South Africa) 23:43
2. Giles Smith (USA) 23:58
3. Ivan Lender (Serbia) 23:87
1. Lauren Boyle (New Zealand) 8:24:76
2. Jaz Carlin (Great Britain) 8:27:25
3. Sarah Kohler (Germany) 8:28:76
Mens 400m medley
1. David Zoltan Verraszto (Hungary)
4:16.17
2. Sean Grieshop (USA) 4:18.63
3. Keita Sunama (Japan) 4:22.15
Gulf Times
CRICKET
SPOTLIGHT
Khawaja gets new chance to prove Test worth

AFP
Melbourne
fter several false dawns

the stage is set for Usman
Khawaja to stake his longterm claim for an Australian Test spot, coach Darren Lehmann said yesterday.
Pakistan-born Khawaja has another chance to consolidate a place
in the Australia team when he bats
at number three in the rst of three
Tests against New Zealand in Brisbane from Thursday.
Khawaja has had a stop-start career in his nine Tests since making
his debut against England in Sydney in 2011, amassing just 377 runs
at 25.13.
Now in the wake of a raft of retirements of established Test stars,
Michael Clarke and Shane Watson
among them, opportunity is knocking once again for the 28-year-old
left-hander.
He will enjoy the advantage of his
home Gabba pitch, where he plays
for Queensland, but cannot af-
ford more batting failures this time

round.
We know he is a great technician
and he has time which is important
at this level, Lehmann said of Khawaja.
He knows conditions well here
at the Gabbathe time is right for
him to perform.
The batsman will attempt to
revive his international career at
number three after skipper Steve
Smiths decision to demote himself
for the rst Test.
Lehmann said there was no pressure on Smith to move down the order to provide more balance in the
inexperienced batting line-up.
He can bat wherever he wants,
Lehmann said.
I said, If you want to bat three
you can bat three, if you want four
you can bat four. We discussed it,
talked about the pros and cons.
He had great success at three at
this years Ashes mixed in with some
indifferent performances I suppose
and he has great success at four so
it doesnt matter so muchits more
the (team) selection.
Smith told News Corp he would

move down to number four for
team balance, but Lehmann said
they also had Khawajas Test revival
in mind.
Khawaja has been successful at
three, so we have given him the opportunity to bat where he does for
his state (Queensland), give him rst
crack, Lehmann said.
In eight Sheffield Shield matches
at the Gabba, Khawaja has scored
839 runs at 69.92, including three
centuries.
Only two of his 15 Shield innings
in Brisbane have not been at number
three.
Former Test skipper Ian Chappell said it was time for Khawaja and
some young guns to seize their Test
chances.
The young blokes havent been
grabbing their opportunities recently and that is why we have had
all these 30-year-olds making their
debut, Chappell said.
But because of the retirements
now theyve got to start choosing
some young blokes, it is up to them,
they have to make the most of it.
TEST
FOCUS
Taylors fifty keeps

England in hunt
The bowlers were outstanding to bowl Pak out in a day and today was a better day to bat
AFP
Sharjah
Englands James Taylor in action during the second day of

the third Test against Pakistan in Sharjah yesterday. (Reuters)
ames Taylor hit a maiden half-century in his

comeback match to bolster England to 222-4 at
stumps on the second day of the
third Test against Pakistan in
Sharjah yesterday.
The 25-year-old, playing his
rst Test since 2012, kept Pakistan at bay with an unbeaten 74
and found an able ally in Jonny
Bairstow (37 not out) as the two
put on an invaluable 83 for the
unbroken fth-wicket stand at
Sharjah Stadium.
That leaves England just 12
behind Pakistans rst-innings
total of 234 with six wickets intact as they hope to gain a decisive lead in their bid to level the
three-match series.
Pakistan lead the series 1-0
after winning the second Test in
Dubai while the rst Test ended
in a draw in Abu Dhabi.
Taylor kept England in the
hunt as he survived a keen tussle between bat and ball, with
Pakistans spin duo of Yasir Shah
and Zulqar Babar threatening
to take wickets.
But Taylor, playing his rst
Test since his two debut Tests
against South Africa three years
ago, batted with resolve, using
his feet and sweeping to blunt
the spin. He pushed paceman
Wahab Riaz for a single to reach
his rst half century off 100
balls. He has so far hit six boundaries during his 141-ball ght.
When Taylor walked in England were struggling at 97-3
after Alastair Cook (49) and Joe
Roottheir two key batsmen
had been dismissed.
Taylor added 42 for the fourth
wicket with Ian Bell (40) to
steady the innings as Pakistan
attacked through both pace and
spin. For Pakistan, Shah took
2-79 while Babar went wicketless in his 25 overs and even a
second new ball at 181-4 failed
to dislodge the Taylor-Bairstow
partnership.
Outstanding
I think the bowlers were outstanding to bowl Pakistan out in
a day and today was a better day
to bat and obviously we wanted
to get as close as we can and obviously now its to try and get
past them, said Bell, who had
praise for Taylor.
He (Taylor) is a smart and a
busy cricketer and what we saw
today that he swept and used
his feet and was busy and at the
back end of the day he had a good
partnership with Jonny.
Bell, who survived a condent
caught behind appeal off Babar,
was nally stumped off Shah.
He hit two boundaries and a six
during his three hour, 37 minute
USMAN KHAWAJA
ICC seeks development

of minor nations
AFP
Dubai
rickets
governing
body yesterday announced multi-format xtures later this
month as part of its ongoing
commitment to developing international cricket at all levels.
The International Cricket
Council (ICC) said various
minor nations will compete
against Pakistan and England
across the United Arab Emirates to prepare for next years
World Twenty20 in India,
the ICC Intercontinental Cup
and the World Cricket League
Championship. ICC chief executive David Richardson said
matches will help minor nations to progress.
November promises to be
an exciting month for cricket
followers across the UAE, an
ICC release quoted Richardson
as saying.
The matches to be played
involving our top Associate
members are part of ICCs
commitment to developing
more competitive teams at the
highest level.
In addition the T20
matches will provide important preparation for the teams
who have qualied for the ICC
World Twenty20 India 2016,
said Richardson of the World
Twenty2o to be held from
March 11-April 3.
Pakistan will face Nepal and
Hong Kong, while Hong Kong
and UAE will play against England, in warm-up games.
UAE head coach Aqib Javed
is excited at the prospect.

November presents a great
opportunity for UAE cricket,
said Aqib, a former Pakistan
paceman.
After a tough few weeks in
the UK and Ireland, we feel as
though were moving in the
right direction.
We have full-time contracts in place for the rst
time and a full-time selection
panel. And the chance to play
a two-day match against Pakistan is a brilliant opportunity.
Pakistan
coach
Waqar
Younis, whose side will face
Nepal in a 50-over clash in
Abu Dhabi on November 8 and
Hong Kong in a 20-over tie at
the ICC Academy on November, 23 believes these are an
important couple of games.
It is clear to see the great
strides that are being made
among the emerging teams in
world cricket, the Pakistan
coach said.
We are excited to face Nepal and Hong Kong as they are
relatively new opponents, but
we know that they have a lot of
quality individually and collectively.
Waqar said all major countries must contribute towards
the development of the game.
Pakistan understands and
embraces its responsibility to
assist developing nations and
we are excited by the opportunity to do so in the UAE this
month, said Waqar.
After the Tests, Pakistan
and England will play four
one-day internationals and
three Twenty20 gamesalso
in UAE.
S Africa women postpone

Bangladesh tour again
innings. Bell and Cook had

steadied the innings with a 71run stand for the second wicket.
England had added three runs
to their lunch score of 87-1 when
Cook fell to a soft dismissal as he
pushed a Shah delivery straight
into the hands of short leg elder
Azhar Ali.
Cook hit four boundaries during his 119-ball knock.
England had hoped Root
would supplement Bell but the
fast-rising batsman fell to a
loose shot off paceman Rahat Ali
and was smartly snapped low to
his right by wicketkeeper Sarfraz
Ahmed.
Resuming at 4-0, England lost
Ali in the seventh over of the day
when he miscued an aggressive
shot off spinner Shoaib Malik
and was caught in the slip by
Younis Khan for 14.
Cook, who made an epic 263
in the drawn rst Test in Abu
Dhabi, looked in no trouble as
he negotiated Pakistans pace-
cum-spin attack with condence and appeared set for another half-century before he fell.
Bell smashed Babar for a six
early in the innings and ably
supported his skipper, adding
valuable runs for the second
wicket partnership with Cook.
SCOREBOARD
Pakistan 1st Innings 234
England 1st innings (Overnight: 222-4)
A. Cook c Az. Ali b Shah 49
M. Ali c Y. Khan b Malik 14
I. Bell st S. Ahmed b Shah 40
J. Root c S. Ahmed b R. Ali 4
J. Taylor not out 74
J. Bairstow not out 37
Extras (lb-2 nb-2) 4
Total (for 4 wickets, 92 overs)
222
Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-90, 3-97,
4-139.
Bowling: R. Ali 16-8-351; Y. Shah
29-3-792; W Riaz 15-4-23-0(nb2); Z. Babar 25-2-600; S. Malik
5-2-16 1; Azhar Ali 2-0-7-0
Injured Stokes cant bowl in third Test

England all-rounder Ben Stokes will not bowl any further in the third
and final Test against Pakistan after injuring his shoulder, the team
spokesman said yesterday.
The 24-year-old fell on his right shoulder during the first days play
in the third Test in Sharjah on Sunday while taking a catch and had
to walk off the ground in great discomfort.
The England team management had a scan of Stokess shoulder
yesterday before announcing he will be further assessed.
He (Stokes) has been ruled out of bowling for the rest of the third
Test. We will make a decision on batting as and when depending
on circumstances. There will be a detailed diagnosis on Tuesday,
said the spokesman.
Its a right shoulder injury and the specialist will be looking at the
scan overnight. Our doctor will then talk to him. There is definitely
no chance of him bowling. If we need him to bat we will make the
decision whenever.
Stokes bowled 11 overs in Pakistans first innings of 234 without
taking a wicket.
England replied strongly with 222-4 after day two, trailing by just 12
runs with six wickets intact.
England will be hoping for a big lead and that Stokes can contribute
with the bat in their bids to level the three-match series after losing
the second Test in Dubai.
The first Test ended in a draw in Abu Dhabi.
South Africas womens cricket team has postponed its tour to

Bangladesh again, an official said yesterday, as tension rose
in the country following a spate of targeted killings linked to
Islamist militants.
Bangladesh Cricket Board made the announcement just a day
before the visitors were scheduled to arrive in Dhaka to play
three one-day internationals and four Twenty20 Internationals.
South African cricket authorities told us that their womens
team cannot come on Tuesday, BCB chief executive officer
Nizamuddin Chowdhury told AFP.
They cited logistic problems. We hope the problems will be
solved soon and theyll announce a fresh date of arrival, he
said.
There were no comments from South Africa cricket chiefs or
the government, but the postponement came just two days
after the murder of a secular publisher who worked with a
slain atheist blogger and writer.
Two secular bloggers and another publisher of books by the
atheist writer were also brutally attacked on the same day,
triggering fresh security fears in the officially secular but
mainly Muslim South Asian nation.
South African womens team was originally scheduled to visit
in October but the tour was postponed in the wake of the
murders of an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer.
Islamic State group said it was behind the earlier attacksa
claim bluntly rejected by the Bangladesh government.
In late September the Australian cricket team called off their
two-match Test series in Bangladesh after official warned
militants might attack Western interests.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe cricket team arrived on Monday to play
three one day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals
in a tour originally scheduled for January, 2016.
Bangladesh brought the series forward after Australia cancelled their tour.
Bangladesh is desperate to avoid the fate of Pakistan which
has had to host nearly all of its home matches at neutral venues since gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team bus during a
2009 Test match in Lahore.
Gulf Times
SPORT
SUPERBIKE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Al-Sulaiti finishes both round six races in top 10

By Sports Reporter
Doha
MMF Racing team rider

Saeed al-Sulaiti nished
both the races of the sixth
round of the Superbike European Championship inside top 10 at
Jerez in Spain on Sunday.
Al-Sulaiti was racing at the Jerez circuit for the rst time, and managed a
strong result despite difficult weather,
including strong wind, at the venue.
The Qatari federations team were
back ghting at the sharp end of race
standings in both contests, showing a
steady improvement.
Al-Sulaitis eighth and sixth place
finish were the best two results of
his career to date, and made clear
that he is becoming more competi-
tive with each passing round.

Teammate Mashel al-Naimi had a
difficult race day nishing outside the
top 10 despite competitive pace early
on.
I am very pleased with these results, especially because it is the rst
time I have ridden at this circuit, alSulaiti said on Sunday.
In the rst race I gained a lot of
positions and was ghting for the Top
5 during the race; eventually I lost
places on the nal laps. The conditions were very difficult, as there was
a strong wind that almost blew me to
the ground several times. I had to save
three crashes with my elbow.
The second race was one of the best
races of my life. I was ghting from the
rst lap to the last; sometimes it was
windy, sometimes it wasnt, sometimes I was in a group and sometimes
I was by myself. I was able to gain positions and reach Robertino Pietri, who
was in fth, but I had a big scare and I
could see that the rear tyre had enough,
so I decided not to risk a crash on last
lap and nish the race in sixth, which is
an excellent result.
I am grateful to the team; they understand me very well and always give
me a great setup. QMMF Racing have
done an excellent job this weekend and
I want to thank everyone, from the mechanics to the president.
Talking about his 12th and 13th place
nish, al-Naimi said, Despite all the
changes we made, I didnt have a bike
that left me feeling comfortable. I
think Im able to ride at a faster pace
and, although I tried my best, I felt that
the bike was not there with me. I hope
to change something on the bike to allow us to make a signicant improve-
ment, making me more comfortable

and able to ride at the level at which I
know I am capable. Thanks to the team
for their hard work and to QMMF for
this opportunity.
Team co-ordinator Luis Solano was
encouraged by the performance of the
two riders.
He said, We should congratulate
Saeed, who has spent all season working
hard. The results of his effort are being
shown in every race. In both races he has
fought at a high level, with a very good
and steady pace, at a circuit that he did
not know until this weekend.
Mashel did not have his best weekend. I think he has a problem with his
arms that prevented him from performing at a higher level. In short,
we must be very happy with the work
weve done going into the last race of
the season.
QMMF Racing teams Saeed al-Sulaiti in action on raceday for the sixth round of the
Superbike European Championship at the Jerez circuit on Sunday.
FORMULA 1
Rosberg has that

winning feeling again
Abu Issa second in quads

cross country standings
This is really the best podium of the year, what a place to do it

Reuters
Mexico City
fter failing to convert his last

three pole positions into victory, and making the mistake
that helped Mercedes teammate
Lewis Hamilton clinch his third world
championship in Texas, Nico Rosberg
needed to feel like a winner again.
In Mexico on Sunday, in front of the
biggest crowd of the season, the German
clambered back onto the top step of the
podium andwearing an oversized winners sombrerocelebrated.
Just really, really happy to get the win
and this is really the best podium of the
year, what a place to do it, he told the
135,000-strong crowd.
Last weekend, he barely moved on the
podium while others sprayed champagne.
Starting on pole position for the fourth
race in a row, and with the team admitting
to some trepidation after he and Hamilton had banged wheels into the rst corner in Austin, he made a clean getaway.
Only once, at the rst pitstop, did he
lose the lead and that was only momentarily. Ive been working on it (the start)
to try and get everything perfect and today it worked out to be rst and that was
important, maybe the most important
part of the race, so Im very happy about
that, he said.
In Austin, he had been leading when
seven laps from the end he went wide, a
mistake he blamed on a sudden gust of
wind, and Hamilton cashed in to take his
third successive race victory.
Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation president and FIM

deputy president Nasser Khalifa al-Attiyah congratulates Qatari
rider Mohamed Abu Issa for his second position in the 2015 FIM
Quads Cross Country Rallies and Junior Cross Country Rallies.
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg celebrates after winning the Mexico Grand Prix at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City
on Sunday. (AFP)
Angered by that error, he petulantly
threw back at Hamilton a cap the Briton
had tossed to him before the podium ceremony.
Mercedes non-executive chairman
Niki Lauda, himself a triple champion,
said in his usual blunt fashion how important the Mexico result was to the German in terms of resetting his personal
compass. Nico had a disastrous race in
the last one. And he fully recovered. Pole
position, dominated the race, won the
race. You cant do a better job, he said.
He beat Lewis which for him was important because he got blown off so many
times. So for me hes fully recovered and
Im happy for him. I dont care if they are
happy or not but for himself it is the best
he could get after this disaster of Austin.
No mistakes, everything perfectly done.
The Germans fourth win of the season
lifted Rosberg back into second place in the
championship with two races remaining.
MEXICAN GP RESULTS (TOP 10)
1. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
1:42:35.038
2. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) +00:01.954

3. Valtteri Bottas (Williams)
+14.592
4. Daniil Kvyat (RedBull)
+16.572
5. Daniel Ricciardo (RedBull)
+19.682
6. Felipe Massa (Williams)
+21.493
7. Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) +25.860
8. Sergio Perez (Force India)
+34.343
9. Max Verstappen (Toro Rosso) +35.229
10. Romain Grosjean (Lotus)
+37.934
Drivers standings (top 3)
1. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
345pts
2. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
272
3. Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari)
251
Rossi deliberately kicked Marquez: Honda

Paris: Honda yesterday accused MotoGP leader Valentino Rossi of deliberately making Marc Marquez crash in
Malaysia in a claim that ratchets up the
tension ahead of this weekends title
showdown in Valencia.
Rossi leads the 2015 championship by
seven points from Jorge Lorenzo but
must start from the back of the grid
on Sunday after stewards in Sepang
found him guilty of kicking Honda star
Marquez off his bike.

Rossi is appealing the punishment with
a hearing set to take place 48 hours
before the race.
The Italian MotoGP legends actions
have caused widespread outrage in the
Spanish media.
But Rossi denies kicking defending
champion Marquez, claiming that he is
the victim of a Spanish plot.
He accuses Marquez of pursuing a dirty
game with the express intention of

helping compatriot Lorenzo to the title,
claiming Marquez conspired to help
Lorenzo win points in Australia.
Honda stepped into the spat yesterday,
the Japanese constructor claiming
their technical data proves Rossi kicked
Marquezs machine.
It is clear that Valentino intentionally
pushed Marc towards the outside of the
track, which is out of the rules, therefore
Marc had no other option other than to

run wide, said Hondas vice-president
Shuhei Nakamoto.
The data from Marcs bike shows that
even though he was picking up the bike
trying to avoid contact with Valentino,
his front brake lever suddenly received
an impact that locked the front tyre,
which is the reason for his crash.
We believe that this pressure was a
result of Rossis kick.
First FIA Women Cross Country Selection
QMMF president and FIA vice president Nasser Khalifa al-Attiyah, and instructors Jutta Kleinschmidt and Fabrizia Ponz with the participants of the first FIA Women Cross
Country Selection training programme yesterday. The five-day programme has 18 participants who were selected out of 85 applicants.
SPOTLIGHT
Red Bull confirm

lineup but still
no engine
Reuters
Mexico City
ed Bull will race with the

same lineup of Australian Daniel Ricciardo and
Russian Daniil Kvyat
next season but rst they need to
nd an engine supply, and that is
still proving hard to resolve.
Both drivers are under contract. Ricciardos contract is
xed and obviously all the options are on our side with Daniil
Kvyat, team principal Christian
Horner told reporters after Sundays Mexican Grand Prix.
He (Kvyat) is doing a great
job. So long as we are here, hell
be in the car next year, added
Horner.
The Briton said he was absolutely determined Red Bull
would be racing next year, but
both options and time are running out.
Mercedes have said no after
Red Bull apparently thought they
had a deal and terminated their
increasingly fraught partnership
with Renault a year early.
Ferrari are talking to Toro
Rosso but are reluctant to supply parent team Red Bull, while
Honda, whose engines have been
the slowest this season, are interested but partners McLaren
are opposed and have a veto.
I havent spoken to anybody
from McLaren other than (group
head) Ron Dennis, who is the one
guy that has the right of say there
and his views were quite clear,
said Horner.
Honda are very keen but unfortunately they have a contractual status that is between them
and McLaren.
Horner said a lot of work was
going on in the background to
nd a solution.
Christian Horner
At the moment we are right
on the limit to be at the rst test
(next year), he said.
But the team in Milton Keynes have demonstrated their
ability to work to massively tight
deadlines and Im sure well be
able to meet whatever targets we
need to so long as we come to a
decision in the next couple of
weeks.
Horner said the situation had
exposed a failure in the sports
regulations to require manufacturers to supply other teams.
Mercedes, Ferrari, Honda and
Renault are currently the sports
only engine manufacturers, with
the latters future still undecided.
I think an independent engine for the future of Formula
One is a no-brainer, he said. Its
important to have a competitive, economical engine. And if it
cant be the current engine, there
needs to be another engine.
Formula Ones governing body
has said it plans to tender for
just such an engine after Ferrari
blocked a proposed cost cap on
engines and gearboxes.
Gulf Times
SPORT
GYMNASTICS
HORSE RACING
Uchimura, Biles
keep blowing
everyones minds
While other gymnasts have won more medals, most notably Vitaly Scherbo, no one has
dominated the sport or maintained their levels of excellence for as long as Uchimura
Japan star Kohei Uchimura performing on the Horizontal Bar at the World Championships in Glasgow.
Reuters
Glasgow
ohei Uchimura is no fan of

noisy arenas, so the Japanese superhero should invest
in some heavy-duty earplugs
when he heads to Rio next August bidding to become the rst gymnast in more
than 40 years to win back-to-back Olympic all-around titles.
The all-conquering gymnast, who has
been immortalised in comic strips in his
homeland and has many screaming teenybopper fans around the world, will arrive in Brazil as the holder of a record six
world all-around titles.
After collecting every Olympic and
world all-around title since taking silver
at the 2008 Beijing Games, King Kohei
will be favourite to become the rst man
since compatriot Sawao Kato in 1972 to
win successive Olympic all-around titles.
However, Kohei, who has 19 world
medals, including 10 golds, said: I dont
really care about the results. I would rather have a great performance that touches
people.
He certainly whipped up a frenzy in
Glasgow as he led Japan to their rst
world team title in 37 years before enjoying individual success in the all-around
and horizontal bar nals.
While other gymnasts have won more
medals and more golds, most notably Be-
Records set at the Glasgow world championships

zAmerican Simone Biles became the
first woman to win three successive allaround golds in the history of the world
championships.
zBiles became the most successful female gymnast at the worlds after picking
up four gold medals - team, all-around,
balance beam and floor exercise - in
Glasgow to take her overall tally to a
record 10.
zRussias Svetlana Khorkina, Romanias
Gina Gogean and the Soviet Unions
Larisa Latynina had shared the previous
record for most world championship
golds with nine each.
zJapans Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura becomes the first gymnast to win
six successive world all-around titles. No
other gymnast has won more than three.
zFan Yilin (China), Viktoria Komova

(Russia), Daria Spiridonova (Russia)
and Madison Kocian (US) shared an
unprecedented four gold medals when
the judges could not decide between
their asymmetric bars routines. All four
scored 15.366.
While so many gold medals have never
been given out in one event before, there
was a five-way tie for silver at the 1922
championships on the pommel horse.
zMax Whitlock became the first British
man to win a gold in the 112-year history
of the championships by edging out
team mate Louis Smith in the pommel
horse final.
zDipa Karmakar become the first Indian
to qualify for an apparatus final - she
finished fifth on the vault.
laruss Vitaly Scherbo, no one has dominated the sport or maintained their levels
of excellence for as long as Uchimura.
In a gruelling sport that seems to leave
champions on the scrapheap faster than
it takes Usain Bolt to run the 100 metres,
Uchimuras gymnastics lifespan dees
logic.
Yet Uchimura, who would dearly like to
meet Bolt, has no time to engage in talk
about being the greatest.
I cant say Im the best in the world,
even though Ive won a lot of medals. I
have seen many great gymnasts in histo-
ry, so I dont think Im the best, he said.

The 26-year-old was not the only one
breaking records in Glasgow.
American Simone Biles, who was 11
when Uchimura picked up his rst Olympic medal in 2008, has also been an
unstoppable force after becoming the
rst woman to win a three-peat of allaround golds at the worlds.
I just keep blowing my own mind,
said Biles, who became the most successful female athlete at the worlds after taking her gold-medal haul to 10.
There are goals that I have and then I
dream of it and then I make it a reality. If

I could crawl out of my skin and see it, it
would be really amazing.
With mission accomplished in Glasgow, the 4-foot-9 dynamos next goal
will be to avoid becoming the next victim of the curse of the world all-around
champion.
Since the event was introduced to the
Olympic programme in 1952, only three
women have captured back-to-back
world and Olympic titles - Larisa Latynina (1960), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1972)
and Lilia Podkopayeva (1996).
Champion gymnasts of the calibre of
Svetlana Khorkina and Shannon Miller
have fallen victim to the curse, but Biles
is determined she will not be adding her
name to the list.
Thats a stat thats been placed into
everybodys head, that you can peak too
soon, said Biles, who triumphed in the
team, all-around, balance beam and oor
exericise nals over the past week.
We have a peaking pace and I think
my pace is just ne. I dont think I have
peaked yet.
With Biles and Uchimura winning
seven golds between them in Scotland,
others were left jostling for fragments of
airtime.
Max Whitlock got the home fans leaping up in the stands when his dynamic leg
work over the pommell horse made him
the rst British man to win a world gold
in the 112-year history of the championships.
BOTTOMLINE
Jockey hopes Cup win can ease

Admire Rakti pain
Reuters
Melbourne
iding last years favourite in the Melbourne Cup,

Australias oldest and most prestigious thoroughbred race, should have been a thrill for local jockey Zac Purton but ended up a nightmare
when Admire Rakti died minutes after the nish.
The Japanese-trained horse was the clear favourite at
5/1 for the gruelling 3,200 metres handicap at Flemington Racecourse but it wasnt long into the race that Purton felt something was amiss.
Weeks before, he had enjoyed a great ride on Admire

Rakti, the bay stallion storming home to win the leadup
Cauleld Cup over 2,400 metres.
Saddled with the top weight of 58.5 kg at Flemington,
Admire Rakti faded badly over the last 600 metres in the
Melbourne Cup, nishing last of the 22 entrants.
Minutes after the race, he died of a heart attack in a
stall, casting a pall over a bumper public holiday crowd
at the meeting.
Admire Rakti was one of two horses to die after the
race, with seventh-placed Araldo euthanised after suffering an injury to his leg when spooked by a fan on the
way to the stalls.
Hong Kong-based Purton said he had been haunted by

Admire Raktis sudden death.
Because you have the whole build-up to the race
I was riding the favourite in itand then to hear what
happened and see the vision splashed all over the news,
it was just really, really sad, he told local media in the
leadup to Tuesdays 155th running of the race that stops
a nation.
It was probably one of theI dont know what word
to useit left me feeling very empty.
Purton will saddle up again on the race favourite, another Japanese-trained stayer called Fame Game, who
bookmakers rate a 5/2 chance.
18th time lucky?

Sheikh Mohamed
chases elusive
Melbourne Cup
AFP
Melbourne
ubai ruler Sheikh Mohamed will make his

18th attempt at an
elusive
Melbourne
Cup win today as some of the
worlds biggest trainers descend
for Australias most prestigious
race.
The 154-year-old Melbourne
Cup over 3,200 metres (two
miles) has become a global event
and its bumper Aus$6.2 million
(US$4.4 million) prize money
lures the big names of thoroughbred racing, from Japan to
the Gulf and the British isles.
While Japans Fame Game is
the pre-post favourite, a roll call
of leading international trainers are trying their luck, some of
them not for the rst time.
A record-equalling contingent of 11 foreign-trained horses
are running at Flemington racecourse, where the Cup has gone
to an international winner only
six times.
Godolphin, the Dubai racing
and breeding monolith owned
by Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid al-Maktoum, is back for
the 18th time after three second
placingsCentral Park (1999),
Give The Slip (2001) and Crime
Scene (2009).
Godolphins main chance this
year is Sky Hunter, but the stable also has the locally trained
Hartnell in the running.
You need to bring horses that
have the speed, stay the trip and
handle the ground and I think
we have three good chances this
year, said Saeed bin Suroor,
trainer of Sky Hunter.
At home, we have some good
horses but they have to carry too
much weight (in the handicap
race). So, I have to think what is
our best chance.
This is a great race to win,
were trying. Well come back
next year and the next year.
Michael Stoute has been a
champion trainer 10 times in
England and he has won races all
over the globe, including victories in the Dubai World Cup, the
Breeders Cup and the Japan Cup
along with ve Epsom Derbies

and two Ascot Gold Cups.
But he has also yet to capture
the Melbourne Cup and gets his
chance with top-weight Snow
Sky, owned by Saudi Arabias
Prince Khalid Abdullah, 10 years
after his last Cup runner Distinction.
I love the race. For years Ive
wanted to come and be competitive in it, Stoute said.
Weve brought a much better
horse this time because we have
to.
Newmarket trainer Ed Dunlop
has come close to winning the
Melbourne with Red Cadeaux
the 10-year-old gelding has
been a runner-up in three of the
last four years.
If he runs in the top four it
would be an astonishing result
for a horse of his age to come to
this country six times, Dunlop
said.
Dunlop also has a strong
chance with Trip To Paris, who
nished second to Mongolian
Khan in the shorter main leadup
race the Cauleld Cup (2400m)
a fortnight ago.
Everyone thought because
he won an Ascot Gold Cup hes
a dour stayer, but hes not at all.
The Cauleld Cup showed that,
Dunlop said.
Irishman Aidan OBrien is
hoping to replicate the trailblazing successes of compatriot
trainer Dermot Weld with Vintage Crop (1993) and Media Puzzle (2002) for his two runners,
Kingsher and Bondi Beach.
OBrien hasnt had a Cup
runner since 2008 but both this
years entries have strong credentials. Bondi Beach won the
English St Leger after an inquiry,
while Kingsher nished second in the Ascot Gold Cup.
Another Irish contender Max
Dynamite, will be ridden by
Frankie Dettori.
The Melbourne Cup has been
won six times by internationally
trained horses: 2014 (Protectonist, Germany), 2011 (Dunaden, France), 2010 (Americain,
France), 2006 (Delta Blues, Japan), 2002 (Media Puzzle, Ireland), 1993 (Vintage Crop, Ireland).
GOLF
Tour bosses
unfazed by
China crackdown
AFP
Shanghai
he head of the European Tour said yesterday that Chinas ruling Communist Party
banning its members from golf
should be seen as a positive
step for the games growth in
the worlds most populous nation. The Tours new CEO,
Keith Pelley, said the decision
to introduce new rules on clean
governance, which banned extravagant eating and drinking,
improper sexual relationships
and playing golf, would help
change perceptions of the game
in China.
It was an incredibly positive
decision, an incredibly positive
move by the Chinese government and one that was incredibly supportive of the game,
Pelley told AFP on the sidelines
of the HSBC Golf Business Forum in Shanghai.
The ruling Communist Party
has long had an ambivalent relationship with golf, which has
been a lucrative opportunity for
local authorities and a favoured
pastime of some officials, but
is also closely associated with
wealth and Western elites.
Pelley believes the latest announcement simply reinforced
the belief that golf is a game for
working people and not a preserve of the wealthy elite.
Eighty percent of the working class in China is who that
announcement was targeted to
and who actually want to participate in the game of golf,
said Pelley, who has been the
European Tours CEO for just
10 weeks since taking over from
George OGrady.
Pelley admitted the an-
nouncement had initially taken

him by surprise, with the European Tour holding two of its
Final Four series in China this
week and next with the WGCHSBC Champions and the
BMW Masters both in Shanghai.
When the announcement
came out I went, Oh, my word.
What is this?, said Pelley.
But within about an hour
we heard from our people on
the ground here that this will be
seen from the people of China as
a support to the game of golf.
Pelley added that there had
been no slowdown in the building of new courses, despite
widely publicised closures of 66
illegally built facilities in March
this year as part of President Xi
Jinpings anti-corruption drive.
Theyre committed to building 5,000 golf courses here for
the public, Pelley added of the
vast country that currently has
around 600 golf courses. A decade ago there were fewer than
100. If you catapult ahead in
ve to 10 years we will be having
a completely different dialogue
about golf in China. Asia has
signicant potential to grow and
China will be a key part of the
future of the game.
Mike Whan, CEO of the Ladies PGA Tour (LPGA), said the
announcement had not stopped
Chinese businesses coming forward to get involved in golf.
From our point of view, since
the news came out weve had
two more title sponsor prospects surface (in China), said
the head of a tour that already
stages seven events a season in
Asia, with one in China.
I dont think it is going to
hinder the interest of Chinese
corporations who want to use
golf from a business perspective
and showcase their country.
Gulf Times
Tuesday, November 3w, 2015
RUGBY
SPOTLIGHT
Noves keen to make France spectacular again

AFP
Paris
ew France coach Guy Noves

has vowed to bring back the
excitement following the national teams World Cup debacle under predecessor Philippe SaintAndre.
France were often accused of being dull during Saint-Andres tepid
and fruitless four years in charge of Les
Bleus, which culminated in a World Cup
humiliation at the hands of eventual
champions New Zealand.
Four years on from making the mighty
All Blacks tremble on home turf in a 8-7
World Cup nal defeat in Auckland,
France were put to the sword in spectacular fashion in this years quarter-nals
in Cardiff, suffering a chastening 62-13
defeat.
France were mostly uninspired as well
as unsuccessful under Saint-Andre but
Noves says hes going to bring back the
air-lled rugby for which the French
have always been famed.
My rst mission is to try to implement a rugby for the future, one which
brings fans to the stadium: spectacular
rugby, said the veteran former Toulouse
coach.
I want us to try to use the whole
pitch, all its width, and hence go towards
a rugby based on movement which is
inspired by that which made Argentine
rugby successful, which, for me, is a true
example.
Theres no point talking about New
Zealand because theyre too far ahead.
Under Saint-Andres predecessor,
Marc Lievremont, France were often
criticised but they won the Grand Slam
in 2010, never nished lower than third
in the Six Nations and reached the 2011
World Cup nal.
Under Saint-Andre, France never nished above fourth in the Six Nations,
never beat New Zealand, South Africa,
Ireland or Wales, and ended on their
Cardiff mauling in which they conceded
their most points ever in a match against
the All Blacks.
With such a miserable recent record
Saint-Andres France won just 46.67
Justin Thomas of the US hits the ball

out of a bunker on the 13th hole during
the third round of the 2015 CIMB Classic
golf tournament at the Kuala Lumpur
Golf and Country Club yesterday. (AFP)
FIRM
FOCUS
No turning back
for retiring World
Cup winner Nonu
Im pretty tired but relieved and really overwhelmed in terms of what happened
AFP
Auckland
aa Nonu scored a dazzling try in his nal Test as he helped New Zealand win
an unprecedented third World Cup but
insisted he would never don the All
Blacks jersey again.
The 33-year-old centre received a superb pass
from Sonny Bill Williams to set off on a stellar
40-metre run to the line to put New Zealand 21-3
ahead against Australia just after half-time.
With a 34-17 victory, the nal whistle at Twickenham closed the door on Nonus 103-cap international career.
Its time to go, and life goes on, he said.
Im pretty tired but relieved and really overwhelmed in terms of what happened, he said.
When I woke up this morning, I didnt really
think about nishing. It was all what I had to do
ahead, when the whistle went off.
We had a big job in hand trying to win it backto-back, out of the country. I thought we hit patches in terms of our game during the pool stages but
when it comes down to the crunch, we had to play
our best rugby.
I thought we had a real focus on what was in
hand, he said, reecting on the World Cup nal
build-up.
We pretty much put behind us who was leaving
and whos last game it was. I thought (captain) Richie (McCaw) nailed it on the head this week in terms
of what was at stake and what we needed to do.
Nonu said the rst half went according to plan,
with New Zealand 16-3 up at the interval.
We got off to a good start, he said.
We were trying to be direct, look after the ball
and offload really well for the rst 20 minutes.
The pass from Williams was a great ball. Sonny
is the best offloader in the game at the moment, he
said, adding that he was surprised to reach the try
line.
In the second half, teammate Ben Smith was sinbinned and Australia pulled the score back to 21-17.
Discipline played its role in terms of getting
down to 14 men and the Australians, they never lie
down. They were quick to come back and score two
good tries and put us against the wall and we just
had to climb back into it, said Nonu.
New Zealand y-half Dan Carter was instrumental in the win, scoring 19 points to stretch his world
record tally to 1,598. He has conrmed it was his
112th and nal Test.
Ive seen him play like that before. I think it was
extra-special for Dan in terms of playing in a Rugby
World Cup nal. In the past two World Cups, hes
been injured, said Nonu.
He just kicked into another gear over the last few
weeks. Weve just seen the best number 10 Ive seen
play for New Zealand.
Nonu, Carter and McCaw are all now departing
the All Blacks scene, along with Keven Mealamu,
Conrad Smith, Ben Franks and Tony Woodcock.
I think its key that we stick together over the
next 48 hours. Its probably the last time we see this
team together, said Nonu.
Receiving his winners medal from Prince Harry
was pretty special, but suggested it may fade from
his thoughts as his previous World Cup win did.
2011s just a memory now, said Nonu.
He is now switching his club career from the Wellington Hurricanes to French club Toulon.
Im not looking forward to that at the moment. I
just want to enjoy this, he said.
percent of their matches, much less than

the already highly-criticised 60 percent
record of Lievremonts teamand such a
lack of creativity in their play, Noves acknowledges it will take time to turn this
outt into an exciting team.
Right now theres no point answering, said the 61-year-old when asked if
this team could produce the spectacular
style he envisages.
But I have no choice, thats where
we have to arrive. We have to work profoundly to become better armed in the
future. Noves coached Toulouse, his
hometown club where he also donned
the black shirt as a player, from 1993 to
2015, guiding them to their most successful period since the 1920s.
They won the French title nine times
and the European Cup a record four
times.
And Noves says he will bring the same
management style that worked so successfully at club level to the international game.
The human way I work with my
players and staff, that will be the motor
of life, plain and simple, he said.
Future of Meyer
to be decided in
December: Saru
AFP
Johannesburg
he future of underre Springboks World

Cup coach Heyneke
Meyer will be decided
by the South African Rugby
Union (Saru) on December 4,
chief executive Jurie Roux announced yesterday.
Although the national team
improved on a quarter-nals
exit from the 2011 World Cup
by nishing third in England
last Friday, there has been
strong public and media criticism of the coach.
Jake White did not have his
contract as South Africa coach
renewed despite winning the
2007 World Cup and Peter de
Villiers, the rst black Springboks coach, was axed after a
quarter-nals exit four years
ago.
Detractors say Meyer used
outdated, obsessively physical
tactics and never met transformation targets during a year
in which the national team lost
ve of 11 Tests.
The defeats included a sensational 34-32 World Cup
group loss to second-tier rugby nation Japanthe biggest
shock in the 29-year history of
the global showpiece.
South Africa recovered
to reach the semi-nals before losing 20-18 to eventual
champions New Zealand.
The Springboks this year
also lost to Argentina for the
rst time, failing 37-25 in a
Rugby Championship game in
Durban.
An agreement between Saru
and the South African sports
ministry set Meyer a target
of choosing at least seven
black players in each 23-man
matchday squad.
But Meyer never reached
the target and his use of three
black starters in key World
Cup matches meant there was
no change from four years ago.
Ninety percent of South Africans are black.
Meyer has dismissed the
growing criticism, insisting
he should be given another
four-year contract, and reacting to allegations of racial
bias against blacks players by
saying he sleeps with a clear

conscience.
Saru said in a statement that
the contracts of Meyer, other
coaches and medical and logistical staff expire at the end
of this year.
The executive council has
the power to appoint management and coaching staff with
the exception of the position
of the Springbok coach, which
is ultimately decided by the
general council of Saru, said
Roux.
That body meets on December 4 when the position of
the Springbok coach for 2016
will be on the agenda.
Once all affected individuals have been notied of any
decisions, a public announcement will be made, which is
not expected before December
5.
We realise the great public
interest in the subject and this
is easily one of the most important decisions we take as an
organisation.
Supporters will understand, therefore, that we have
many factors to consider before any announcements can
be made.
Those deliberations cannot take place in public out of
respect for individuals and our
governance structures, said
Roux
Should Meyer be dumped,
New Zealand-born former
Coastal Sharks coach John
Plumtree is the favourite at
evens with a leading local
bookmaking rm to take over.
Another New Zealander,
South Africa-based former
Golden Lions coach John
Mitchell is second favourite at
5-2 followed by ex-Springboks
handler Nick Mallett (5-1).
Japan-based South African
Allister Coetzee (8-1), 2015
Currie Cup-winning Golden
Lions coach Johan Ackermann
(10-1) and Western Province
rugby director Gert Smal (161) come next.
White, now coaching French
Top 14 outt Montpellier, is a
33-1 shot.
No foreigner has coached
the Springboks since they
were readmitted to Test rugby
in 1992 after apartheid-induced isolation.
Van der Merwe out for three months
New Zealand centre Maa Nonu celebrates after his team won the the final match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup against
Australia on Saturday.
Johannesburg: South African

prop Schalk Van der Merwe
will miss Saturdays Top 14 trip
to Toulon due to a dislocated
shoulder, his club Montpellier
said yesterday. The 24-year-old
former Golden Lions front rower
is due to spend three months on
the sidelines after injuring himself
in training last week, missing the
visit of Toulouse last Saturday.
But there is better news for
Montpellier as fly-half Francois
Trinh-Duc is set to return against
the reigning three-time European
champions.
Trinh-Duc dislocated his shoulder
during the 30-19 win at Grenoble
just over two weeks ago and
missed the 24-19 win at home
to leaders Clermont, as well as
Saturdays 33-25 defeat by record

four-time European champions
Toulouse.
I started training again on
Monday, Ill be tested during the
week, said the 28-year-old, who
didnt make Frances World Cup
squad. During his absence, South
African Demetri Catrakilis and
Ben Lucas of Australia donned
the no.10 jersey.
Montpellier come into the fixture
in fourth place and six points
behind leaders Clermont while
Toulon are eighth and 11 points
off the top. France international
forwards Fulgence Ouedraogo,
a flanker, and prop Nicolas Mas,
as well as Georgian prop Misha
Nariashvili will not feature against
Toulon.
Gulf Times
SPORT
BASEBALL
Royals reign after beating

NY Mets in World Series
It is unbelievable we feel like a family here and we knew we were going to do something special this year, I felt it in spring training
Reuters
New York
ansas City ended a 30year wait for a World

Series title as the Royals reigned over Major League Baseball with a 7-2,
12-inning victory over the New
York Mets on Sunday.
A pinch-hit single by utility
inelder Christian Colon scored
the go-ahead run off reliever
Addison Reed in the 12th and the
Royals added four more runs in
the inning as they captured the
best-of-seven series 4-1.
The visitors swarmed into the
middle of the diamond in the
hushed Citi Field stadium for a
celebration by the mound where
closer Wade Davis had struck
out the side to end it.
Catcher Salvador Perez was
named Most Valuable Player of
the Series after batting .364 with
two RBIs, three runs scored and
a .391 on-base average, and expertly handling a pitching staff
that more than held their own
against the vaunted Mets hurlers.
It is unbelievable we feel like
a family here and we knew we
were going to do something special this year, I felt it in spring
training, Perez said. Now I
dont feel pain, I dont feel nothing. I am ready to celebrate.
The Royals triumph was all
the sweeter coming after their
agonizing Game Seven loss in
last years World Series to the
San Francisco Giants and a large
contingent of blue-shirted Royals supporters crowded around
their dugout to share in the joy.
The heart, the desire, and
their competitiveness and their
character showed through every single game, Kansas City
manager Ned Yost said about
his players. It marked Kansas
Citys rst Fall Classic crown
since their 1985 triumph against
cross-state rivals the St. Louis
Cardinals.
COMEBACK KIDS
The Kansas City comeback
kids trailed 2-0 heading into the
ninth but rallied to tie the game,
ruining the shutout bid of starter
Matt Harvey and handing closer
Jeurys Familia his third blown
save of the series.
At the end of eighth, the
crowd chanted Harvey! Harvey! hoping to see him come
out to pitch the ninth, and the
Mets ace ended the suspense
when the bearded 26 year old ran
Kansas City Royals players pose after defeating the

New York Mets in game five of the World Series at Citi
Field. The Royals win the World Series four games to
one. PICTURE: USA TODAY Sports
from the dugout to the mound to
Citi Field cheers.
Harvey, who had dueled with
Royals starter Edinson Volquez
in the tense battle, walked leadoff hitter Lorenzo Cain, who
promptly stole second base. Eric
Hosmer followed with a linedrive double to left that scored
Cain to make it 2-1.
Mets manager Terry Collins
then called in Familia, who was
charged with blown saves in
Game One and Game Four.
Familia got Moustakas to
ground out to rst as Hosmer raced to third. Perez hit
a grounder to third baseman
David Wright, who bluffed Hosmer back toward the bag before
throwing on to rst base for the
out. But as soon as Wright released the ball, Hosmer broke for
home and rst baseman Lucas
Dudas throw to the plate came
in wide as Hosmer slid in safely
to tie the game. The title-clinching victory was Kansas Citys

remarkable eighth come-frombehind win of the postseason.
What they accomplished this
year was nothing less than spectacular and very, very special,
manager Yost said. They just
dont quit, theyve got a lot of
heart, theyve got a lot of character and they never think they
are going to lose.
Mets manager Terry Collins
was gracious in defeat.
I congratulate the Royals.
They played absolutely great,
Collins said. We couldnt get
it done, and were hoping to get
another chance at it.
I just told the players, Ive
done this for a long, long time
and this is the most fun Ive ever
had in all the years, said Collins,
at age 66 is the oldest manager in
the majors. Im very, very proud
of them.
Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador

Perez is presented with the series
MVP award and a car after defeating
the New York Mets in game five of the
World Series at Citi Field.
PICTURE: USA TODAY Sports
NFL
Broncos offense busts loose to beat Packers

AFP
Denver
eyton Manning outgunned Aaron

Rodgers to win the marquee battle between two future Hall of
Fame quarterbacks Sunday as the
unbeaten Denver Broncos handed Green
Bay their rst loss of the season.
Manning threw for 340 yards as the
Broncos picked their spots passing and
used a powerful rushing attack to move to
7-0 by knocking the Packers off their unbeaten perch with a 29-10 victory. Ronnie Hillman ran for two touchdowns and
C.J. Anderson had another for the Broncos, whose offense nally broke out of its
funk after the defense became the story of
their undefeated start through the rst six
games.
Manning recorded his 186th career
regular-season win, tying Brett Favre for
most victories by a starting quarterback
in NFL history. Demaryius Thomas was
his favorite target, with eight receptions
for 168 yards, his team-record-tying 31st
game with at least 100 yards receiving.
We were very determined, Manning
said. We eliminated some things, we added some things and it really paid off for us
tonight. The Broncos improved to 7-0 to
start a season for just the second time in
their history. They got off to a 13-0 start in
1998.
Green Bay fell to 6-1, snapping an
eight-game regular-season winning
streak dating to last year. Denvers defense
RESULTS
Saints
Chiefs
Bengals
Buccaneers
Ravens
Cardinals
Vikings
Texans
Rams
Seahawks
Raiders
Broncos
52
45
16
23
29
34
23
20
27
13
34
29
Giants
49
Lions
10
Steelers
10
Falcons 20 (overtime)
Chargers
26
Browns
20
Bears
20
Titans
6
49ers
6
Cowboys
12
Jets
20
Packers
10
frustrated the Packers high-powered offense, limiting Rodgers to 77 yards on 14of-22 passing. He was sacked by DeMarcus
Ware and fumbled early in the fourth quarter
and in the scramble for the ball it rolled into
the end zone, where it was recovered by tight
end Richard Rodgers for a safety.
The Cincinnati Bengals also improved to
7-0 with a 16-10 victory over the Steelers in
Pittsburgh.
Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton overcame two fourth-quarter interceptions to
throw for 235 yards that included the goahead touchdowna nine-yarder to wide
receiver A.J. Green with 2:37 to play. That
put the Bengals ahead for the rst time in
the game, 13-10, and kicker Mike Nugent
added a 44-yard eld goal to seal it.
Being 7-0 is great and being in rst
place is great but its always a great feeling
whenever we beat the Steelers, Bengals
linebacker Vontaze Burct said. They are
our archrival. Its always extra special to

come in here and beat them on their home
eld.
The Bengals and Broncos joined the
New England Patriots on 7-0, with the
Carolina Panthers hoping to join them
there when they host Indianapolis on
Monday. But the leagues dominant teams
werent the only story on a day of thrills
and spills.
New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees
and New York Giants signal-caller Eli
Manning combined for a league-record
13 touchdown passes at the Superdome,
where Brees record-equaling seven TD
tosses lifted the Saints to a 52-49 victory.
Brees became the eighth quarterback
to throw for seven touchdowns in a single
game in the scoring extravaganzawhich
ironically was decided by the 50-yard eld
goal as time expired by Saints kicker Kai
Forbath.
In Dallas, the Seattle Seahawks took another step toward salvaging their season
with a 13-12 victory over the Cowboys.
Steven Hauschka delivered a gamedeciding 24-yard eld goal with 1:06 to
play as the Seahawks won their second
straight to improve to 4-4 going into their
bye week remaining. The injury ravaged
Cowboys got receiver Dez Bryant back after ve games on the sidelines with a broken foot, but he had just two catches for
12 yards. The enduring image of the contest was of Seattle wide receiver Ricardo
Lockette lying motionless on the turf after
taking a hard hit on a punt play from Cowboys safety Jeff Heath.
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (No 18) throws a pass during the first half against the Green Bay
Packers at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver. PICTURE: USA TODAY Sports
Gulf Times
SPORT
NHL
NHL
NBA
Mavericks keep
Lakers winless
Of course its not something that happens often, so for sure its something big
By Eric Stephens
The Orange County Register
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki heads

to the bench in the second half of the game after
scoring 25 points against the Los Angeles Lakers
at Staples Center. PICTURE: USA TODAY Sports
The Sports Xchange

Los Angeles
orward Dirk Nowitzki scored 25 points and

grabbed nine rebounds,
and the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Los Angeles
Lakers for the eighth consecutive time, rolling to a 103-93
victory Sunday night at Staples
Center.
Center Zaza Pachulia added
16 points and 12 rebounds for
the Mavericks (2-1), who had six
players score in double gures.
The Mavericks had three of
their starters return. Forward
Chandler Parsons (right knee
surgery) made his season debut,
while guard Deron Williams
(left knee sprain) and Wesley
Matthews (rest) returned from
one-game absences.
Parsons was ineffective,
compiling two points, three rebounds and three assists in 11
minutes. Williams nished with
11 points and eight assists, while
Matthews had 10 points. Guard
Raymond Felton also scored 11
for Dallas, and guard J.J Barea
came off the bench to chip in
with 10 points and seven assists.
Forward Julius Randle nished with 22 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Lakers (03). Forward Kobe Bryant had
15 points on 3-of-15 shooting,

while reserve guard Lou Williams scored 13.
Dallas hit 46 percent of its
shots from the oor, while Los
Angeles made just 36.5 percent.
Despite their struggles in the
rst half, the Lakers, who began
the game in a 15-0 hole, were
only down 54-45 at intermission. They managed just 30.2
percent shooting compared to
43.8 percent for the Mavericks.
Dallas also connected on nine of
17 (52.9 percent) three-pointers
to four of 16 (25 percent) for Los
Angeles before the break.
However, the Lakers enjoyed
a considerable edge on free
throws, hitting 15 of 19 (78.9
percent) to three of four for
the Mavericks. In the third, the
Lakers cut the decit to 64-57
after a three-point basket by
rookie point guard DAngelo
Russell with 5:18 to go, but the
Mavericks subsequently pulled
away.
They closed on a 17-7 run for
a 81-64 advantage heading into
the fourth. Two free throws by
Williams pulled Los Angeles
within 97-91 with 2:27 remaining, but that was the closest the
Lakers would get.
Whiteside shines as Heat
rally to ground Rockets
Hassan Whiteside scored 25
RESULTS
LA Lakers
Miami
Toronto
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Boston
Charlotte
93 Dallas
103
109 Houston
89
106 Milwaukee 87
92 Orlando
87
117 Denver
93
87 San Antonio 95
92 Atlanta
94
points to lead the Miami Heat to

a 109-89 comeback victory over
the Houston Rockets on Sunday.
Guard Dwyane Wade nished
with 20 points for the Heat,
who trailed by as many as 21
points early in the third period
and erased a 19-point halftime
decit, outscoring the Rockets
31-12 in the third quarter.
Guard Gerald Greens threepointer with 54 seconds remaining in the period tied it at
75-75. Scoreless through the
rst three periods, forward
Chris Bosh gave Miami its rst
lead 85-83 on a three-pointer with 8:11 remaining in the
fourth quarter.
Boshs conversion from behind the arc was part of a 17-0
run that ended on Whitesides
dunk with 3:44 left for a 97-85
Miami lead. Bosh nished with
10 points. Forward Luol Deng
scored 14 points and forward
Justise Winslow and guard
Tyler Johnson were Miamis
other double-digit scorers with

11 and 10 points, respectively.
Whiteside, a center, also had
15 rebounds. Houston was held
without a eld goal for a 9:02
stretch in the fourth quarter.
The loss was the Rockets third
straight by 20 points. Guard Marcus Thornton scored 21 points to
lead Houston, and guard James
Harden nished with 16 points
but was held to two points in the
second half. The Rockets played
without center Dwight Howard,
who sat out because of a sore
back. Behind Thorntons 19
rst-half points, Houston built
an early double-digit lead.
Thornton hit ve of six threepointers as the Rockets converted on 9-of-20 from beyond the
arc in the rst two periods.
Thorntons fth three-pointer with 49 seconds remaining
gave Houston its biggest lead of
the rst half at 63-42.
The Heat missed their rst 10
three-point attempts and Bosh
missed his rst six shots.
In the rst quarter, Miami
rallied from a nine-point decit
to cut Houstons lead to 35-30 at
the end of the period. Consecutive three-pointers from guard
Patrick Beverly and guard Jason
Terry negated the early Miami
comeback and helped Houston
open the second quarter with 10
unanswered points.
Spurs beat Celtics

LaMarcus Aldridge is getting more comfortable with his
new team. On Sunday the AllStar power forward helped the
San Antonio Spurs gray beards
stand alone in the NBA history
books.
Aldridge had 24 points with
14 rebounds, and the visiting
Spurs held off the Boston Celtics 95-87.
The victory enabled the
Spurs Big Three of Tim Duncan,
Frenchman Tony Parker and Argentine Manu Ginobili, to become the NBAs all-time leaders
in wins by a trio at 541, surpassing Bostons Larry Bird, Robert
Parish and Kevin McHale.
Of course its not something
that happens often, so for sure
its something big, said Ginobili, who nished with 13 points
and eight rebounds.
Of course it feels great. It
tells us a lot about how successful weve been and the 14
seasons weve played together.
Even playing so long with each
other for so long is very unique.
The Spurs landed Aldridge
as the top free agent prize last
summer after starring nine
seasons with the Portland Trail
Blazers.
The All-Star big man seems
to be adjusting nicely to the
Spurs system.
GOLF
Lambros, Peterson emerge winners

By Sports Reporter
Doha
erox Corporate Golf

Challenge (XCGC) has
concluded its 13th qualifying round at Kuwaits
Sahara Golf & Country Club on
October 31.
From a full eld of participants, George Lambros and Dave
Peterson emerged as the winners.
Joon Ho Bae and Ki Won Yoo
took second place, while Wael
alWelayti and Fadia Emadi came
in at third. All three teams nished the qualifying round with
a score of 43, and the winners
were selected by Countback (a
standardised method of deciding the winner of a tied game by
awarding it to the participant

with the better score in the later
part. In this method, scores in
the Back 9 then Back 6 holes
were considered). On-course
competitions included Aramexs
Hole 8 Nearest the Pin, claimed
by Mike Hewlett, Eccos Hole 14
Nearest the Pin, won by Meong
Ok Cha, Crystal Gallerys Hole 9
longest drive won by Sunny Kim
and PWSs Hole 13 Longest Drive
claimed by Hyon Kyung.
The top three teams from the
Kuwait qualier join other nalists in the Grand Final which will
be held in Ras Al Khaimah at the
end of 2015.
Winners of XCGCs 13th qualifier
in Kuwaits Sahara Golf &
Country Club.
Stewart and
Andersen
shine in
Ducks win
hris Stewart and Andrew Cogliano each
scored their rst goals
of the season and the often-punchless Anaheim Ducks
tied their season high in getting
a 4-2 victory over the Nashville
Predators on Sunday night.
Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen nally picked up his rst
victory of the season as he delivered another strong effort
with 40 saves. The difference is
his teammates gave him some
long-needed offensive support
in stopping a ve-game losing
streak.
Rickard Rakell triggered a big
rst period with a nifty move
down low that spun around
Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis. Rakell then ipped a backhand shot by Nashville goalie
Carter Hutton, who was giving
regular starter Pekka Rinne a rare
night off.
The Ducks (2-7-2) then turned
a 1-0 lead into a 3-0 advantage
in a matter of 12 seconds. Sami
Vatanen got a pass from defense partner Clayton Stoner
and ripped a slap shot by Hutton on the stick side. Cogliano
then jumped on a turnover and
snapped in a wrist shot.
The two goals before 16,276
at Honda Center were the fastest the Ducks had scored since
getting a pair 11 seconds apart
against Vancouver on Jan. 19,
2013, the opening night of the
lockout-shortened season.
Nashville, which lost to the
Los Angeles Kings in overtime
Saturday, countered with a
Shea Weber power-play goal in
the second. But the Ducks restored a three-goal lead when
Stewart converted a rebound
off some good set-up work by
RESULTS
NY Islanders
Montreal
Carolina
Anaheim
Colorado
1
5
3
4
3
Buffalo
Winnipeg
Tampa Bay
Nashville
San Jose
2
1
4
2
4
Rakell and Korbinian Holzer.

It was a breakout night for
Stewart as he assisted on the tallies by Rakell and Vatanen in the
rst. The winger, who was one of
the Ducks summer additions,
had no points in his rst nine
games and was a healthy scratch
in another.
The Ducks also scored four
times in their previous victory
over Minnesota back on Oct.
18. Eleven of their NHL-low 14
goals have come in three games.
Ducks winger Jiri Sekac did
not return in the third period after suffering a lower-body injury
when he was hit by Nashvilles
Gabriel Bourque. Sekac also had
the other assist on Rakells early
score.
Meanwhile All-star goaltender Carey Price will be out
for at least a week with a lowerbody injury, the Montreal Canadiens announced.
The 28-year-old Price was
hurt during the Canadiens 4-3
National Hockey League loss to
the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday. The Canadiens declined to
give details about the injury.
Price, who was chosen fth
overall in the 2005 entry draft by
Montreal, led Canada to a gold
medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter
Olympics.
Mike Condon, a 25-year-old
rookie, started in place of Price
on Sunday against the Winnipeg Jets. The Canadiens also
called up goalie Dustin Tokarski
from St. Johns of the American
Hockey League while Price is
sidelined.
Anaheim Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen (No 31) makes a save

during the second period of the NHL game against Nashville
Predators in Anaheim. (AFP)
Blackhawks Kane unsure where

investigation stands
Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane said Sunday he and his attorney,
Paul Cambria, did not know if the investigation into Kane for an alleged sexual assault was near its conclusion.
Kane addressed the matter Sunday after Blackhawks practice but
did not say much regarding a Buffalo News report that said, according to anonymous sources, that Kane is unlikely to be charged in
the investigation, which stems from an incident that took place at
Kanes home in western New York in August.
Theres been a lot of reports, a lot of things that have been said
that have been wrong, Kane said. A lot of things that have been
said that may have been accurate, too. Weve kind of stayed even
keel the whole time and not really saying much and leaving it to the
facts and what actually happens instead of going off sources and
different reports.Kane has continued to play for the Blackhawks
while the investigation has been ongoing and has not said much
about the investigation he faces. In September, Kane said he would
be absolved of any wrongdoing in the case. Later that month, the
investigation took a bizarre twist when Thomas Eoannou, an attorney then representing the accuser, called a news conference to say
evidence in the case had been tampered with, a charge the district
attorney, Frank Sedita III, refuted and said was a hoax perpetrated
by the accusers mother, leading to Eoannou withdrawing from the
case. When asked if he was frustrated with how long the process
has taken, Kane said he looked forward to the conclusion. I mean
you understand the law and Im not the only case thats going on in
that area, in that district, Kane said.
Gulf Times
SPORT
FOCUS
Tigers ex-caddy Williams says he felt like slave

AFP
New York
utspoken caddy Steve Williams has revealed that

he sometimes felt like a
slave to Tiger Woods and
wanted to stop the champion American golfer spitting on the course.
Williams, who parted ways with
Woods in 2011 after helping him
win all but one of his 14 major titles,
writes in a book released Monday that
he also felt tainted by the sex scandal
involving the superstar athlete.
The New Zealander claims he was
hounded by the media after the story
broke in 2009, but was still determined to stick by his friend.
I did that even though people were
accusing me of being an enabler, an
accomplice, saying I was lying when
I stated clearly that I knew nothing about this. For months on end,
my life was absolutely miserable, he

says in Out of the Rough, written with
journalist Michael Donaldson.
Williams says he is often asked
how he could not be aware of what he
termed Woods multitude of mistresses but puts it down, in part, to
the fact that their wives were close
and Woods knew he would not approve.
Only a handful of his oldest buddies actually had any idea this was
going on. I didnt know because Tiger
didnt dare tell me, he writes.
We had such a strong bond and
working relationship that there was
no way he could let me in on what
was happeninghe knew my values
and that I would have zero tolerance
for that kind of behaviour.
Williams reports limited contact
with his boss for months after the
scandal broke, but they nally emailed
and spoke and later met to hash out a
future working relationship.
I was adamant that some of

his behaviour on the course had to
change, he says in an excerpt of the
book published in New Zealands
Sunday Star Times.
He notes that while Woods had
a bad temper you could live with
it because it ended as quickly as it
started.
One thing that really pissed me
off was how he would flippantly
toss a club in the general direction
of the bag, expecting me to go over
and pick it up. I felt uneasy about
bending down to pick up his discarded clubit was like I was his
slave.
The other thing that disgusted me
was his habit of spitting at the hole if
he missed a putt.
After he left Woods, Williams was
hired by Australian Adam Scott who
ourished with the New Zealander
by his side, reaching the number one
world ranking in 2014.
Steve Williams (L)

with Tiger Woods
PARIS MASTERS
SPOTLIGHT
Bellucci sets up
Djokovic clash
Record number of
players taking part
in Qafco Open
Young guns Dominic Thiem and Bernard Tomic also advance to the second round
By Sports Reporter
Doha
Austrias Dominic Thiem serves to Frances Adrian

Mannarino during their first round match at the ATP
World Tour Masters 1000 indoor tennis tournament
in Paris yesterday. (AFP)
AFP
Paris
ovak Djokovic will open his

campaign for a third consecutive Paris Masters title against
Thomaz Bellucci after the Brazilian earned a rst-round win yesterday.
The South American defeated Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-4, 6-4 and
will now challenge the world number one
and top seed who is aiming to stretch a
10-match win streak at the Bercy Arena
and starting after a bye give to all 16 seeds.
Seven-time Swiss Open champion Roger Federer, the third seed, will face Italian
Andreas Seppi for the fourth time this season after Seppi put out Uruguays Pablo
Cuevas 7-5, 6-3.
Seppi ambushed the Swiss in an Australian Open third-round upset - and Federer has been piling on the revenge wins
ever since.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion beat
Seppi in the Indian Wells third round and
the nal at Halle, Germany in June prior
to Wimbledon. Federer comes to Paris to
play the last event of the ATP regular season riding a wave of condence after his
6-3, 5-7, 6-3 defeat of Rafael Nadal at his
home event in Basel on Sunday.
His sixth title of the season has got Federer keen to get stuck into Paris with the
eight-man World Tour Finals in London
looming from November 15.
The condence is good, no doubt
about it, said Federer. I had a good reaction this week after losing early in Shanghai. I needed to get back the feel of winning. At one point in the week I was quite
tired, I was playing with a lot of pressure
trying to get to the nal four. But now I feel
the best I have all week.
The body has gotten used to match
play again after all these weeks when I
didnt have enough matches. Now I feel
like Paris is not a problem anymore.
Im happy about feeling pretty good
right now.
Young guns Dominic Thiem and Bernard Tomic also advanced to the second
round.
Austrias Thiem beat the rst of the
Frenchman, sending Adrian Mannarino to
the end of his season 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.
Mannarino complained of problems
from a previous hip sprain, saying he
started to feel pain early in the third set.
My level was not so bad even with the
pain.
The question is how bad is it. I had an
examination in China which was not so
clear.
Australian Tomic needed just 56 minutes to beat Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-2, with
six double-faults from the often casual
Italian contributing to the loss.
Tomic next plays Roland Garros winner
Stan Wawrinka, seeking to recover from
last weeks rst-round exit in Basel.
Wawrinka holds a 5-1 record in the series, with the pair last playing in Davis
Cup more than a year ago.
Swiss win lifts Federer past Murray in rankings

Roger Federer moved back into second place in the mens tennis rankings
issued by the ATP yesterday as the
final Masters of the year got underway
in Paris.
Federer won a seventh Basel indoor
title in his native Switzerland Sunday
against number six Rafael Nadal and
moved ahead of Andy Murray (8,070)
with a tally of 8,250 points.
Novak Djokovic leads the way with
15,785 points and is long assured of the
year-ending top spot.
All top players are present at the Paris
Masters before the best eight contest
the season-ending World Tour Finals
November 15-22 in London.
Radwanska moves ahead of Kvitova
Agnieszka Radwanska moved ahead
of Petra Kvitova into fifth place in the
latest womens tennis rankings issued
by the WTA after beating her for the
trophy at the season-ending championships the previous day.
Radwanska claimed her biggest career
title Sunday in Singapore in the absence of top ranked Serena Williams,
who has 9,945 points and leads from
Simona Halep (6,060) and Garbine
Muguruza (5,200).
The season is all but completed but
Kvitova and eighth-ranked fellow-
Czech Lucie Safarova can add to their

tally in the November 14-15 Fed Cup
final against Russia for whom fourthranked Maria Sharapova could be
playing.
WTA Finals champion Agnieszka

Radwanska of Poland poses with the
trophy at the Gardens By The Bay in
Singapore yesterday. (AFP)
he 26th Qafco Open tennis championship got

under way at the Al-Banush Tennis courts and
Khalifa Stadium. The championships started on October 19 and
will continue until November 6.
In the current edition, a record
400 players are participating in
more than 400 matches played
across 22 categories. Based on
popular demand, two new categories Girls Doubles Junior
(GDJ) and Boys Doubles Junior
(BDJ) have been added.
The championship, the oldest of its kind in Qatar, started
in 1987 has grown into a long
established tradition in Qafco.
Over the period, it has continued
all along with renewed momentum evolving into a prestigious
annual gathering of the Qatars
tennis community.
The championship which has
built a reputation for excellent
organiSation features keenly
contested matches and enjoys
broad popularity all over Qatar.
Through the years, the Championship has attracted players
across age groups, reecting
growing popularity of tennis in
Qatar. The championship is a
hunting ground for some of the
renowned players like Sultan
Khalfan, Amir Bayoumi, Amir
Ibrahim, Mohd Abdulla al-Ansari, and others.
It is heartening to see all those
involved in championship put in
more efforts to ensure that the
event comes out in the desired
standard so that it can contribute towards honing the skills of
young players and putting tennis in its rightful place on the
map of sports in Qatar with a

view to provide a spring board
that will take our heroes to world
class courts. The entry and participation in Qafco Open tennis
Championship is open to all residents of Qatar, males, females
and children. The Championship
includes 22 categories from boys/
girls 10 years and under to Mens
veterans 45 years and above.
RESULTS (ALL FINALS)
Boys
Under-10
Zaid Mohd S al-Mashni bt James
David O Sullivan 5-2, 5-1
Under-12
Mohammad A Amirul bt Ibrahim
Eid Y A al-Suliti 7-5, 6-0
Under-14
Rayyan A Aljufairi bt Abdulrahman Sultan al-Ghazal 6-1, 6-0
Under-18
Joud Alazmeh bt Siddharth
Ramesh 6-1, 6-2
Doubles Junior
Arjun Karnik-Athrey A Jayaraman bt Jassim Mohd A S
al-Mahmoud-Abdulaziz T Zainal
7-5, 6-2
Doubles Senior
Joud Alazmeh-Siddharth
Ramesh bt Bassem Farouk
Malek Fouda 6-1, 6-2
Girls
Under-10
Bolisetty A Gupta bt Noopur N
Gohil 5-0, 5-3
Under-12
Sravanti E Nandakumarr bt
Amna Homoud al-Qaet 6-4, 6-0
Under-14
Vipasha Mehra bt Fatima Ayesha
J Amirul 6-0, 4-6, 6-1
Ladies singles qualifying final
Francesca Jones bt Araya Suksomrup 7-6, 6-2
Ladies singles main final
Sarah Meghoufel bt Olla Basel
Mourad 6-2, 7-6.
No Shanghai trip for Dubuisson

Turkish Airlines Open champion Victor Dubuisson is less than
pleased that he will be left twiddling his thumbs when the European
Tours money-spinning Final Series continues in China on Thursday.
The Frenchman sobbed like a child on Sunday after winning in Antalya for the second time in three years but the tears quickly turned
into a frustrated sigh when he found out he was ineligible for this
weeks WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai. Dubuisson made
his Ryder Cup debut last year and was riding high at number 17 in the
rankings. However, a slump in form this season sent him tumbling to
69th before his victory in Turkey. Its a big disappointment because
its a big, big tournament, the 25-year-old told reporters after collecting a cheque for one million euros ($1.10 million) and a win that could
take him back into the worlds top 35.
Meanwhile Ian Poulter has been added to the field for the WGC-HSBC
Champions in Shanghai this week after a bizarre turn of events concluded a whirlwind fortnight for the Englishman.
Ryder Cup talisman Poulter dashed halfway around the world two
weeks ago to play in the Hong Kong Open after being nudged out of
the worlds top 50, the qualifying mark for WGC events.
It meant he hadnt qualified for Shanghai and would not therefore
meet the minimum requirement of 13 European Tour events needed
to keep his Tour membership card. Only members can qualify for Europes Ryder Cup team, so Poulter endured a 9,000-mile last-minute
charge across 13 time zones from Florida to Hong Kong. He finally
turned up late on the eve of the event without a caddie and no time
to practise, after former US PGA champion Rich Beem graciously
gave up his sponsors invite to play in the event.
Gulf Times
FOOTBALL
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
FOCUS
Barca, Real set for

CL last 16; Chelsea,
Arsenal seek wins
We have made a good start and we are already dreaming about an 11th triumph.
But we should not forget that there are still important group matches ahead of us
DPA
Berlin
MESSI ON THE SIDELINES

Lionel Messi remains on the sidelines
while Andres Iniesta and Sergi Roberto
are t again.
Valencias Group H could be decided
on Wednesday as Zenit are top on nine
from Valencia (six) and are denitely
through with a home win against Gent
(one). Valencia will join them if they prevail at Olympique Lyon (one).
Group D could also have both qualied
teams if leaders Juventus (seven) win at
Borussia Moenchengladbach (one) and
City (six) prevail at Sevilla (three).
Juve are taking nothing for granted after being held 0-0 at home by the Germans who have turned around their Bundesliga season with six straight wins in a
rise to fth place from last.
Theyve won their last six xtures in
the league and will have the advantage of
playing in front of their home support,
Sevillas coach Unai Emery gestures during the press conference on

the eve of the UEFA Champions League match.
AFP
Seville
itle holders Barcelona as well as

Spanish league rivals Real Madrid and Valencia are among
seven teams who can clinch early
qualication for the knock-out stages of
the Champions League with two games
to spare.
Ex-champions Juventus, Paris St Germain, Manchester City and Zenit St Petersburg, the only team on maximum
points, can also advance if all goes their
way on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Record 10-times winners Real host
PSG in a Group A topper at the Bernabeu,
with both locked on seven points after
drawing 0-0 in Paris last month. The
winner will advance as long as bottom
side Shakhtar Donetsk (zero) beat Malmo
(three) in the other game.
We have made a good start in the
Champions League and we are already
dreaming about an 11th triumph for the
club. But we should not forget that there
are still important group matches ahead
of us, Real goalkeeper Keylor Navas said.
Tuesdays game against PSG will be
difficult, because they are an excellent
team.
Navas is expected back from injury
along with Dani Carvajal, Gareth Bale
and Karim Benzema for the game which
will also see the return of PSGs Angel di
Maria to his former club.
Real and Barca top the Spanish league
on 24 points each, and Barca can also
move into the last 16 on Wednesday.
They lead Group E on seven points and
will move on with a home victory against
BATE Borisov (three) and if Roma (two)
dont beat Bayer Leverkusen (four) in tbe
other game.
City clash a must

win, says Sevilla
boss Emery
Real Madrids Cristiano Ronaldo (C) jokes with Marcelo (R) during a training session on the eve of their Champions League Group A
match against Paris St Germain, at the teams training grounds outside Madrid, Spain.
Juves Claudio Marchisio said.
Nevertheless well be ghting for the
three points, which would allow us to
put more than one foot in the knockout
stages.
Of the other Premier League sides,
Manchester United host CSKA Moscow
with both locked on four behind Group
B leaders Wolfsburg (six), who visit PSV
Eindhoven (three).
Beleaguered Chelsea are third in Group
G with four points ahead of a home date
with number two Dynamo Kiev (ve)
while leaders Porto (seven) are at Maccabi Tel Aviv (zero).
Its a big game. Its a game that we
cannot lose, manager Jose Mourinho
told Chelsea TV as he looks to fend off
criticism and secure his long-term future
after losing six of their 11 league matches.
Arsenal go to Munich after beating
them 2-0 at home last month in Group
F where Bayern and Olympiacos have
Todays Fixtures
Group A
Real Madrid (Spain) v Paris St Germain
(France); Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)
v Malmo (Sweden)
Group B
Manchester United (England) v CSKA
Moscow (Russia); PSV Eindhoven
(Netherlands) v VfL Wolfsburg (Germany)
Group C
Astana (Kazakhstan) v Atletico
Madrid (Spain); Benfica (Portugal) v
Galatasaray (Turkey)
Group D
Borussia Moenchengladbach (Germany) v Juventus (Italy); Sevilla (Spain) v
Manchester City
Theyve won their last six fixtures

in the league and will have the
advantage of playing in front
of their home support, Juves
Claudio Marchisio said
six each and Arsenal and Dinamo Zagreb
three apiece.
Manager Arsene Wenger said he would
gladly accept a point and that we have
to relieve the pressure whenever we can
and try to score goals.
Arsenal won 2-0 in Munich in the
round of 16 in the previous camapign and
drew 1-1 there in the same round in 2014
but went out on both occasions on away
goals.
The 2013 winners Bayern are coming
off their rst dropped Bundesliga points
in a 0-0 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt,
with central defender Jerome Boateng
urging We have to do better against Arsenal.
evilla coach Unai Emery believes his side have

to beat Premier League
leaders Manchester City
on Tuesday to have any chance
of advancing to the last 16 of the
Champions League.
The Europa League holders sit
third in Group D, three points
behind City, with Italian champions Juventus a point further
clear at the top of the table.
If we win tomorrow then City
are catchable, Emery said on
Monday.
If we draw we have a signicant disadvantage, plus there is
Juve there already with seven
points.
Therefore, tomorrow is decisive. If we want to have optimistic hopes of reaching the last 16
then winning is the only option
we have.
Emery questioned his sides
ght after they suffered a fourth
defeat in 10 La Liga games this
season at Villarreal on Saturday
to slip to 11th in the table.
However, they have won their
last 10 European games at home
en route to winning back-toback Europa League titles and
three consecutive matches in La
Liga at the Sanchez Pizjuan, including a 2-1 win over Barcelona
last month.
Tomorrow we are playing at
the Sanchez Pizjuan and we have
to continue with this consistency, added Emery.
It is a huge challenge, similar
to that when we played Barce-
If we draw we have a
significant disadvantage,
plus there is Juve there
already with seven points.
Therefore, tomorrow is
decisive. If we want to have
optimistic hopes of reaching
the last 16 then winning is
the only option we have
lona for the calibre of the opponent, the leaders of the Premier
League, and it will take our best
to overcome them.
Sevilla were denied a deserved
point away to City two weeks ago
as Kevin de Bruynes injury time
winner handed the English side a
2-1 win.
However, Spanish international Vitolo said that match has
given Sevilla condence they can
inict another painful European
night upon City.
I think in the rst game you
saw that we have a good team
when we play for each other,
said the winger.
We worked very hard and it
is clear that we can make things
even more difficult for them at
home in front of our fans.
In the past two years the success we have had has been based
on us all running and ghting for
the team above any individual.
If we want to do great things
we need to do the same. Work
together and run for each other.
Emery is hopeful of having
inuential Argentine midelder
Ever Banega t after he missed
Saturdays defeat due to an ankle
injury.
However, top scorer Kevin
Gameiro misses out with a hamstring problem.
REACTION
UEFAs City probe

a joke - Kompany
BOTTOMLINE
City keen to prove intent in Seville

When I came to this club I
came to lift trophies.
We know that to be a big
club we must continue
winning important trophies
and making our imprint in
Europe
AFP
Seville
remier League leaders

Manchester City travel
to Europa League holders Sevilla today intent
on proving they wont be Champions League ops once more
this season.
Kevin de Bruynes injury time
strike snatched a 2-1 win for
City when the sides met a fortnight ago in Manchester to put
Manuel Pellegrinis men in the
driving seat along with Juventus
to qualify from a devilishly difficult group also featuring Borussia Monchenglabach.
Despite their riches, City have
failed to make it beyond the last16 in the Champions League,
crashing out to Barcelona in each
of the last two seasons after being beaten to rst place in their
group by Bayern Munich.
After a disastrous start to the
campaign in a 2-1 loss at home to
Juventus, City have given themselves a chance of topping the
group with back-to-back wins
to close to within a point of the
Italian champions.
And Yaya Toure is aware that
City must begin to make an im-
Manchester Citys Yaya Toure and Kelechi Iheanacho during training in foggy conditions.
pact in the Champions League if
they are to be taken seriously by
Europes elite.
When I came to this club I
came to lift trophies, he told the
clubs website.
We know that to be a big club
we must continue winning important trophies and making our
imprint in Europe.
If we do that people will say
Manchester City is one of the
great clubs.
The visitors will again be
without the injured Sergio
Aguero, whilst David Silva remains doubtful due to the
sprained ankle he suffered playing for Spain three weeks ago.
Raheem Sterling is expected
to replace Nigerian wonderkid
Kelechi Iheanacho after the
English international was rested
from the start of Saturdays 2-1
win over Norwich.

Sevilla have injury problems
of their own as top scorer Kevin
Gameiro misses out due to a hamstring problem picked up in Saturdays 2-1 defeat at Villarreal.
The Spanish side have won
their last 10 European games
at the Sanchez Pizjuan on their
way to winning back-to-back
Europa League titles.
However, coach Unai Emery
was highly critical of his squad

for losing their focus after their
latest league defeat saw them
slip eight points off the top four.
Tuesday will be another test
as to how we are improving in
every game. We can get excited
because we are in the Champions League, but the league is
where we have to achieve our
priorities, he said.
I think about our bread and
butter and that is the league. We
need to enjoy the Champions
League but where we need to win
is in Spain.
We are not going to win the
Champions League. La Liga is
what presents the road to our
present and future.
Fernando Llorente is the favourite to deputise for Gameiro
after netting just his second goal
for the club at the weekend.
And inuential Argentine
midelder Ever Banega could
also return should he shrug off
an ankle knock in time.
Manchester Citys Vincent Kompany (C) during training.

AFP
Manchester
anchester City captain Vincent Kompany has described

UEFAs investigation
into booing of the Champions
League anthem by his clubs
supporters as a joke.
Its a joke, Kompany said,
in comments carried by several
British newspapers on Monday.
We have played many games in
Europe where there has been racial abuse and we have had to put
up with it.
And there have been times
when we have been sanctioned
in the same way as the team that
was actually perpetrating those
chants.
The European governing body
opened disciplinary proceedings
after City fans jeered the anthem
prior to last months home game
with Sevilla, as it breached regulations concerning disruption
of the competition anthem.
City supporters routinely boo
the music in protest at what they
see as unfair treatment by UEFA.
UEFA ordered Citys match at
CSKA Moscow last season to be
played behind closed doors as a
punishment for offencesincluding racist abuseby fans of

the Russian club, but made no
allowances for away supporters
who had already made travel arrangements.
UEFA was already unpopular
with Citys fans after imposing
nancial fair play sanctions on
the club in 2014.
In Moscow we werent allowed to have any support inside
the stadium. I dont see what our
fans did wrong, Kompany added, ahead of his sides Group D
game at Sevilla on Tuesday.
I have experienced it as well
when I was a kid playing at Anderlecht, certain games in Europe where you had a lot of racial
abuse.
So in that sense this is not
justiablethere is nothing holy
about the Champions League
anthem.
UEFA can do what they want
to do, but in the end if people feel
its the right thing to do, they
have the right to do it. How else
can they show their frustration
and somehow have a voice that
matters?
The fact that we were given the
sanction is actually drawing more
attention to what they are trying
to do. We support our fans.
10
Gulf Times
FOOTBALL
SPOTLIGHT
HIGHLIGHT
Less could be more

for Rooney as
United seek goals
Manchester United hope that Wayne Rooney rediscovers his form when they host
CSKA Moscow in the Champions League today
Tevez leads Boca to

Argentine title
Boca Juniors forward Carlos Tevez celebrates while holding his son
after winning Argentinas first division football championship.
AFP
Buenos Aires
arlos Tevez captained

his boyhood club Boca
Juniors to the Argentine
Primera Division title on
Sunday, the eighth league crown
of the former Juventus and Pemier League strikers career.
Tevez, who played for Boca
when they won their last national crown in 2003 before moving
to Europe, returned to the Buenos Aires side in July.
I came back to feel this again
the 31-year-old said after former
Lyon defender Fabian Monzons
42nd minute goal earned Boca a
1-0 win over Tigre and their 31st
title with a game to spare.
Boca are six points clear at the
top of the table of San Lorenzo,
the side supported by Pope Francis, and eight points ahead of Rosario Central.
For Boca the title is a welcome
boost after a year when they had
to sit and suffer as arch rivals

River Plate scooped up the league
title, Copa Sudamericana, Copa
Libertadores and South American SuperCup.
Tevez arrived back at Boca
after helping Juventus into last
seasons Champions League nal.
On his return the star known
as Apache after the district
he comes from in the Argentine
capital told his fans: I want to
give back to Boca what the clubs
given to me.
After Tevez had helped Boca
claim the 2003 title and after a
spell with Corinthians he had
a high prole move to Premier
League side West Ham, before
moving on to Manchester United, Manchester City, and then
Juve.
With United he won two
league titles and the Champions League, and a third Premier
League crown with City, and
helped Juve lift the 2013 and 2014
Scudetto in Serie A.
Fearless Bayern focused on the

Arsenal game, says Lahm
Manchester Uniteds English striker Wayne Rooney takes part in a training session in Manchester, north west England.
DPA
London
or Manchester United manager

Louis van Gaal, less is more.
That might seem strange considering that United have not
scored in their past three matches.
Its a drought that has United fans
concerned, with most of the ire aimed
towards striker Wayne Rooney.
Rooney is Englands highest ever goalscorer and has scored just under a goal every
two games in his 12 seasons with United.
But with just two goals for his club this
season, Van Gaal is being urged to move the
30-year-old out of a central position - and
perhaps out of the starting line-up.
The Dutchman is not a man usually
swayed by public opinion and he has
leant his support to Rooney lately, urging him to try to let things happen, rather
than push too much.
Players are human beings and they
want to score goals but maybe they want it
too much and maybe then the choices are
not always good, he said after the weekend
goalless draw with Crystal Palace.
Maybe he is doing too much, because
you never know as a player how you can
improve your shape or your nishing. It
can also (create) a lot of doubt and I try to
inuence that.
But it can be too hard and then your
mental state shall be a little bit less and
that has an inuence on everything and
thats the most difficult thing as a manager and player to cope with.
The form of Anthony Martial has not
helped Rooneys cause but former United
manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes in the
Maybe he is doing too much,

because you never know as a
player how you can improve your
shape or your finishing. It can also
(create) a lot of doubt and I try to
influence that
old adage that form is temporary, class is
permanent.
All the strikers I had, everyone relied
on their condence, Ferguson told reporters recently.
When they were scoring they think
they can never stop, when theyre not
scoring they think theyre never going get
a goal, its a fact.
I think well have to wait (but) itll
happen. (Rooney) will go on a run, dont
worry about that. Meanwhile Midelder
Juan Mata said United have to be better as
a team when it comes to creativity.
(Against Palace), we werent able to

create good chances, he wrote in a blog
for Uniteds website.
We need to get better in that aspect
of the game because I think we have the
players to do that. Im sure that the goals
will come soon and, with them, the good
results.
United rank second in Group B, tied
on four points with Tuesdays opponents CSKA Moscow, two behind leaders VfL Wolfsburg. They then host bottom side PSV Eindhoven on November
25 before a final game in Wolfsburg on
December 8.
We have two consecutive games at
Old Trafford and the one this Tuesday is
almost a nal, Mata said.
CSKA have the same points than us,
therefore it is vital to win if we want to
top our group.
BOTTOMLINE
Bottom side Gladbach host

Juventus on record high
AFP
Monchengladbach
orussia
Moenchengladbach host Juventus
today bottom of their
Champions
League
group, but buoyed by their
record run of six league wins
which has seen them shoot up
the Bundesliga.
Under caretaker coach Andre
Schubert, Gladbach have won
all of their league games to climb
from bottom of the German
league to fth.
Schuberts six wins on his rst
stint in the Bundesliga equals
the record Willi Entenmann
achieved with VfB Stuttgart in
1986.
To give that context, Bayern
Munichs coach Pep Guardiola
won only his opening three
games in his rst Bundesliga
season in 2013/14.
But Borussia are bottom of
Group D in Europe after losing
Moenchengladbachs head coach Andre Schubert.

their opening two games: 3-0 at
Sevilla and 2-1 at home to Manchester City before drawing at
Juventus a fortnight ago.
Gladbachs 4-1 Bundesliga
win at Hertha Berlin on Saturday
was a timely booster after holding Juventus to a goalless draw in
Turin.
Gladbach need to beat Juventus to keep alive their faint
hopes of reaching the knock-out

stages.
Since Schubert took charge,
after Lucien Favres shock resignation in September, Gladbach
have only lost oncewhen Manchester City secured a 2-1 comeback win at Borussia Park in the
Champions League.
Gladbach have never lost to
Serie A opposition in six games
at this level, but this is their rst

year they are playing in Europe
since the 1977/78 season.
Unbeaten in Europe, Juventus
will secure qualication for the
last 16 if they beat Gladbach and
Sevilla lose at Manchester City
today.
Juve will be without Germany
midelder Sami Khedira who
tore his calf early in Saturdays
2-1 win at Torino and came off
after ten minutes.
He told me he had a problem,
but I risked him and used him in
the game, said Juventus coach
Massimiliano Allegri.
Juventus have had a disappointing start to the season and
are tenth in the Italian league,
but top Group D after wins over
City and Sevilla before drawing
with Gladbach.
The Germans are relishing
taking on last seasons nalists again and right-back Havard Nordveit, who scored their
fourth goal in Berlin, says there
will be a special atmosphere.
Were really looking forward

to this special game, said the
Norway international.
This is the second Champions
League match at Borussia Park
and the atmosphere will be top.
I hope we can play our game
and then anything can happen.
Its a good time to play such
a big match.
I dont believe that Juventus
will think: this will be easy.
They also know that we have
won six league games in a row,
that we are self-condent and
that it will be difficult against us.
Despite hauling his team up
the league table, Schubert does
not have a permanent contract,
but director of sport Max Eberl
has hinted he is set to get the
head coach job full-time.
A win over Juve would be another step in the right direction.
Now comes the Champions
League, and theres every reason Ill still be here, I think,
said Schubert after Gladbachs
win in Berlin.
Philipp Lahm says his Bayern

Munich side is focused, not
wounded ahead of their
Champions League clash at
home to Arsenal tomorrow.
Bayern suffered their only
defeat of the season at the
Emirates Stadium a fortnight
ago when they lost 2-0 to the
Gunners in London.
Arsenals Germany defender
Per Mertesacker has said
he expects Bayern to be
wounded and will want to
prove that they are better
than us at the Allianz Arena,
but Lahm rejected the notion.
Why should we be wounded?
Were focused, but we have
no reason to be wounded,
said Bayerns captain with the
Germans top of Group F.
We are top of the Bundesliga
and our Champions League
group, you cant get much better than that.
We werent wounded after

the away defeat.
Were playing at home, its a
top game and we want a win
to consolidate our place at the
top of the table.
Arsenal are third-placed in the
group, but are unbeaten in
their last two visits to Munich
and Lahm says Bayern will
take nothing for granted.
This is a big challenge against a
team like Arsenal who have individual top players, said Lahm.
We didnt take our chances
in London and we have to do
much better on Wednesday.
It would be great if we can
take our first few chances
again and put the opponent
under pressure.
We dont need any extra motivation for the Arsenal game.
This is the Champions
League. Were playing at home
and anyone who isnt motivated is in the wrong place.
INJURY
Bale, Benzema to
miss out against PSG
AFP
Madrid
eal Madrid will be without Gareth Bale and

Karim Benzema for
their crucial Champions League clash against French
champions Paris Saint-Germain
today.
Both players failed to train
with the rest of the squad on
Monday and wont be risked
ahead of Sundays trip to Sevilla
having spent several weeks on
the sidelines.
Bale has been suffering from
a recurring calf problem, while
Benzema hasnt featured since
injuring his hamstring on international duty with France three
weeks ago.
Benzema is on course with the
expectations we had. He isnt in
the squad because he, like Bale,
lacks the condence to play a
game of this level, Madrid coach
Rafael Benitez said yesterday.
He is continuing to improve,
but this will be a match of high
intensity and importance.
The good news on the injury
front for Benitez is the return of
James Rodriguez to the squad for
the rst time in two months.
Rodriguez was also injured on
international duty and Benitez
admitted there is little the club
can do to stop the top scorer at the
2014 World Cup being called up by
his national team again this week.

He has been recovering for
a long time and he lacks the
rhythm of competition. He is
available, but that doesnt mean
he is going to start.
If he is t and Colombia call
him up, he will go. The only thing
I hope is that he scores a lot of
goals and returns healthy.
Keylor Navas and Sergio Ramos are expected to come back
into the Madrid side after also
missing Saturdays 3-1 win over
Las Palmas due to injury.
However, Luka Modric remains a doubt with the hip injury
that forced him off at half-time
in that game.
PSG were much criticised for
their cautious approach against
a vastly under-strength Madrid
side in a 0-0 draw in Paris two
weeks ago.
Should there be a winner in
the Spanish capital, they will
take a huge step towards sealing
their place in the last 16 as group
winners.
However, Benitez is well aware
of the threat Laurent Blancs men
pose of inicting his rst defeat
since taking charge at the Bernabeu in June. The quality of the
players and the team PSG have is
undeniable, he added.
They are growing every year
and they have exceptional potential. It is a very difficult game
and we need to be fully concentrated to do well.
Gulf Times
11
FOOTBALL
SPOTLIGHT
Neymar and Suarez make

Barcelona frightening
without star player Messi
La Ligas top two scorers are carrying the team without their talisman, who may not be ready in time for the Clasico
By Sid Lowe, The Guardian
Barcelona
t was a truly terrible sight, and

not just because of all that double
denim. Vctor Rodrguez was sitting at the front of Getafes press
room analysing the game his side had
just lost to Barcelona when he heard
the screaming beyond the wall. The
door burst open and in they came: a
zombie, Batman, King Kong, Shrek,
Frankenstein, and some monstrous
mate. The zombie stumbled into the
middle, peered out from behind his
mask and muttered Shit, weve got
this wrong, so they turned to escape
only to be ushered out the back door
instead, bumbling past the cameras
and the cables lying everywhere. Who
was that, someone asked. Who do you
think it was, my mother and father?
Getafes press officer replied. It was
the Barcelona players.
They had come dressed for Halloween, some in masks worn with the
clubs usual casual combo, others in
full costume, hair and make-up. Sandro came as a ghost and Dani Alves was
dressed as a prisoner, either that or he
was modelling next years kit. Adriano
and Neymar came as Dracula and, as
for the zombie leading them, that was
Gerard Piqu. For one brief moment
there was even real panic, when they
bundled outside and realised they were
lost, Jordi Alba contemplating a bid for
safety over a metal barrier, but they
soon boarded the bus for home.
And so it began. Some got their
knickers in such a twist that it was a
wonder there was any blood getting
to their goolies Barcelonas players
later apologised, insisting they had not
intended to show Getafe a lack of respect but most just came up with the
inevitable jokes and, on the weekend
when every mistake is a horror show
and every tackle terrifying, even
more inevitable puns. Luis Enrique
came as an ogre with irritable bowels,
but no one realised he was wearing a
costume, chuckled Juanma Trueba in
AS; theyre scary, ran the cover of El
Mundo Deportivo on Monday morning. Just in case you didnt get it rst
time, the huge headline running across
pages two and three reads: Theyre
frightening again.
The cover of Sport ran something
even more scary on Monday morning.
Leo Messi, it reported, wont make it
back for the clsico in 19 days time
after all. It is not, Sport say, that he
has suffered a setback in his recovery
from a knee injury picked up against
Las Palmas on 26 September but that
things are moving a little slower than
anticipated and, with their counterparts at El Mundo Deportivo not ruling
him out but also sounding pessimistic,

insisting that Barcelona wont take any
risks, the countdown to the clsico becomes even more fraught. Yet rather
than render that theyre scary headline irrelevant, the news about Messi
underlined how important it is. Just
how important they are.
On the morning after Messis injury,
one headline summed it up. Gulp! it
said. In Madrid they were delighted;
here, many thought, was a chance to
open up a gap. It hasnt worked out
that way. Messi fell injured in the third
minute against Las Palmas, damaging
his knee ligaments. Barcelona won 2-1
that day, Luis Surez getting both, and
since Messi hit the oor Barcelona have
played eight times winning six, losing
one (at Sevilla) and drawing one, an irrelevant 0-0 draw in the Copa del Rey,
played with a B team. Beat Villarreal at
the Camp Nou this weekend and in the
worst-case scenario theyll reach the
clsico joint leaders with Madrid, who
travel to Sevilla the one place where
Barcelona have been beaten in Messis
absence.
It is true that Madrid too have suffered signicant injuries and equally
true that victories over Las Palmas,
Bayer Leverkusen, Bate Borisov, Rayo,
Eibar and Getafe are not really anything to get overexcited about. Only in
Seville would Barcelona have not been
clear favourites, and that day they lost.
But here they are, level with Madrid
and much of that is down to Surez and
Neymar. In the time since Messi got injured Barcelona have scored 14 times in
the league; Surez and Neymar got all
of them, seven each. And heres a truly
scary stat: Sandro and Munir, the other men in the front three, have both
gone over a year without a goal.
They are the leagues top and second top scorers, with Neymar on nine
and Surez on eight (level with Imanol Agirretxe and Cristiano Ronaldo).
No partnership in the country has
more goals. On Saturday night, Surez
scored his 300th career goal; in a year
with Barcelona he has scored 36 in 58
games. Neymar scored his 34th this
calendar year, in 45 Barcelona games.
That should probably not come as a
surprise: Surez cost 80m, after all,
while Neymar cost more than the then
president Sandro Rosell could have
imagined and more than he would ever
say. Treble winners, goalscorers in the
Champions League nal, they already
a case to be considered the worlds second and third best players in 2015. Yet
that was as a trident in which the
status was clear; that was with Messi.
During one fans event in the summer, Surez was signing a ball for a
supporter. Youre the best, the supporter said. Im not the best, Surez
replied, you know whos the best?
File picture of Barcelonas Luis Suarez (L) celebrating his goal against Getafe with teammate Neymar during their La Liga match in Getafe, near Madrid, Spain.
The answer of course was Messi. The
star at any other club, Neymar and
Surez have always been quick to insist
on Messis pre-eminence. They have
become genuinely close and even in the
Argentinians absence they have been
swift, perhaps even a little too swift, to
involve him both publicly and privately. Social media has been their platform. When Surez scored a hat-trick
last week, he posed with Neymar and
with Messi; when the two of them were
in the treatment room with Messi, the
picture went up. When Messi showed
off his Grumpy pyjamas, it was Surez
who had bought them for him.
Had they not played well of late,
those messages might have implied
neediness but with Surez and Neymar
playing so well in Messis absence, it
expresses something different, perhaps a desire continue to underline his
signicance, as if anyone would forget.
It expresses the idea that while with-
out Messi they can be strong; with him

they can be stronger, but that the need
to rush back may be lessened, the urgency slightly less urgent.
On Saturday night, Luis Enrique insisted that he has not asked Neymar
to do anything different in Messis absence, but this is a different Neymar
now. He has taken on responsibility to
lead the side creatively: it is not just the
talent that is often mind-blowing, it is
the willingness to go at people, the determination to lead, the nerve. Even in
Seville, where Barcelona were beaten,
he was superb, carrying his team forward. He has nine goals and six assists
and has been directly involved in 11 of
Barcelonas last 13 goals, indirectly
involved in the 12th and 13th, his run
beginning the move in both cases. We
know our roles: I dont dribble round
three or four players like Ney does,
Surez said this weekend. Even Neymar didnt do that very often before;
now he does, more and more often and

more and more successfully.
Together they have led Barcelona
when they were not playing well. The
only thing missing has been good play,
wrote the editor of Sport. The only
thing? At Barcelona of all clubs, it
was a startling remark. But if the football was not always good the forwards
were. And then this weekend even that
returned, or at least a glimpse of it.
For the rst time, the idea of Messi
missing the clsico was oated, just
when, for the rst time, there was a
small sign that, while they will always be better with him, perhaps they
could live without him. There has
been a sense of standby in the league,
the big two mostly winning while not
convincing. But on Saturday, Barcelona looked a little like Barcelona, with
Sergio Busquets superb in the middle
from where he should never have been
moved; Sergi Roberto hugely impres-
During one fans event in the

summer, Surez was signing a
ball for a supporter. Youre the
best, the supporter said. Im
not the best, Surez replied,
you know whos the best? The
answer of course was Messi
sive, supplying two assists, the rst
from a lovely backheel; Claudio Bravo
keeping a clean sheet at last; and of
course with Neymar and Surez up
front.
At the end of Barcelonas 2-0 win
at Getafe, Surez was asked if the
way that he and Neymar were playing meant that people have forgotten
about Messi.
That the question was even asked
was striking. No, they remember
Messi anyway because he is the best,
Surez said. And with that he headed
to the dressing room and pulled on his
Batman costume.
BOTTOMLINE
Whats really gone wrong for Jose Mourinho?

AFP
London
ose Mourinho has reacted to

the disintegration of Chelseas
Premier League title defence in
characteristically abrasive fashion, but he appears increasingly enmeshed in a web of his own making.
Mourinhos instinctive response to
adversity is to lash out in the hope of
forging a siege mentality and his targets
this season have ranged from his old
foe Arsene Wenger to Chelseas former
team doctor Eva Carneiro.
But his railing has failed to achieve
the desired effect and amid fervent
speculation that his days at Stamford
Bridge may be numbered, there is a
suggestion that his message is no longer getting through.
In the words of the former Chelsea
player-manager Ruud Gullit: If you
keep on moaning and moaning and
moaning, people will get fed up.
Central to Chelseas problems has
been Mourinhos apparent failure to
re-motivate the players who he led to a
Premier League and League Cup double
just six months ago.
Previously, Mourinho has inspired
devotion in his players with a confrontational leadership style whereby
File picture of Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.

stinging criticism is replaced by reparative praise once his charges have
started to follow his instructions.
But while that approach has brought
him huge short-term success, his experiences at former clubsas well as in
his rst stint at Chelseasuggest that it
is not a strategy that is workable over a
long period of time.
Alvaro Arbeloa, who played under
Mourinho for three years at Real Madrid, says that he is incapable of mod-
erating his methods when players prove

resistant to them.
I spoke with him a lot and Jose is
a coach who demands a lot and he
doesnt know any other way than to
be that demanding, the former Spain
international said in an interview with
The Independent.
He would say, Im not able to say,
Hows it going? Whats happening?
How do you feel? to a player who isnt
trying. He cant deal with the situation
that the team is not functioning. He

didnt take that at all well.
There are also reports that members of Mourinhos squad have reached
breaking point over his constant ngerpointing, following trenchant public
criticisms of under-performing players
such as Eden Hazard.
In widely reprinted remarks made
over the weekend, a senior BBC radio
reporter said that Mourinhos relationship with the misring Hazard was
under immense strain.
Garry Richardson also made the
startling claim that a senior Chelsea
player had told him: Id rather lose
than win for him.
Chelseas hierarchy gave Mourinho a
public vote of condence following last
months home defeat by Southampton
and are reported to have reiterated their
support for him after Saturdays 3-1
loss at home to Liverpool.
But he continues to cut an isolated
gure, with West Ham United vicechairman Karren Brady revealing that
he chose to stand on his own rather
than sit with three of his directors after
being sent to the stands during Chelseas 2-1 defeat at Upton Park.
Dissecting his relationship with
Chelseas American chairman Bruce
Buck, Brady wrote in The Sun that he
has hardly any relationship with him as
Ex-Chelsea doc Carneiro to sue Mourinho: report

Former Chelsea team doctor Eva
Carneiro is launching an individual
legal claim against the clubs embattled manager Jose Mourinho,
Britains Press Association reported
yesterday.
It follows last weeks reports that
Carneiros lawyers had served notice
on the club that she intends to seek a
claim for constructive dismissal.
The additional, individual claim
would oblige Mourinho to appear in
person before an employment tribunal, unless an out-of-court settlement
could be reached, potentially leaving
him personally liable for damages.
Carneiro left Chelsea in September
after being removed from first-team
duties.
Mourinho had rebuked her and
physiotherapist Jon Fearn for run-
football is just a sideline and not the focus of his life.

For all Mourinhos travails, he continues to enjoy the backing of Chelseas supporters, who chanted his name
throughout the defeat by Liverpool,
which left the champions in 15th place.
Midelder John Mikel Obi, meanwhile,
has rejected suggestions that his men-
ning onto the pitch to treat Eden

Hazard during his sides 2-2 draw
with Swansea City on the seasons
opening day, which temporarily left
Chelsea with nine players.
Carneiros reported claim against
Mourinho is further bad news for the
52-year-old, whose position is under
scrutiny after Chelsea lost six of their
first 11 Premier League games and
slumped to 15th place in the table.
To date Chelsea have repeatedly
stated that they will not comment on
internal staffing matters.
Mourinho said that Carneiro and
Fearn had been impulsive and
naive by going onto the pitch to
treat Hazard, but the Premier League
Doctors Group said failure to do so
would have been a breach of their
care of duty.
tors methods are no longer effective.

He has come out a few times and
said the players are not giving 100 percent and then you look at the next few
games, the players come out and play
better, the Nigerian said.
I think that inside that dressing
room we denitely believe he is the man
to change things.
SQUASH
GULF TIMES
WOMENS DRAW
Chinappas dream run

continues at Qatar Classic
It feels nice to be in the quarter-finals of a World Series event after almost two years. I am feeling good
Indias Joshna Chinappa (right) plays a shot against Egypts Yathreb Adel during their pre-quarter-finals match of Qatar Classic squash championship at Khalifa
International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. PICTURES: Nasar TK
By Satya Rath
Doha
he dream run continued for

Indias Joshna Chinappa at the
Qatar Classic yesterday. After
downing top seed and world
No. 1 Raneem El Welily in the rst
round of the event on Saturday, she
scalped another rising star yesterday to
storm into the quarter-nals of the PSA
World Series event, being played at the
Khalifa Tennis & Squash Complex here.
The 37-minute straight sets win (1614, 11-8, 11-8) over Egypts opponent
Yathreb Adel, the 19-year-old who
knocked out world No. 14 Indian Dipika
Pallikal in Saturdays opening round,
pits the 29-year-old Indian against a
third successive Egyptian opponent,
world No. 6 Omneya Abdel Kawy, in

tomorrows last-eight ght.
The 30-year-old Kawy, coming off a
breakthrough 2014-15 season, downed
an out-of-sorts No. 10 seed Sarah-Jane
Perry of England in straight games.
Chinappa and Kawy were joined in
the quarters by No. 8 Nouran Gohar
of Egypt, who outclassed qualier and
compatriot Amina Yousry (11-2, 115, 11-2), and Laura Massaro, who was
pushed to four games by fellow Englishwoman Fiona Moverley before winning 14-12, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9.
It was another focused and composed performance by Chinappa
against the much younger Adel,
whos already jumped to 31 in the
world despite being a full-time student at Roehampton in England. The
nervy first game set the tone, and
also the outcome of the match.

The Egyptian raced to a 6-2 lead, and
looked the tter and sharper of the two.
Realising that her older legs would nd
it difficult to cope with the pace and
on-court movement of the 19-yearold, Chinappa tried to slow down the
tempo, focusing more on rallies and the
occasional drops.
The change of momentum worked,
as the Indian clawed her way back to
force a tie-break. Adel had her chances
to close the game, but was unable to
take advantage of as many as ve game
balls. The frustration led to errors, and
increased appeals and protests at the
referees calls. A calm Chinappa kept
going, and when the one opportunity
came, a game ball at 15-14, she closed it
with a delectable drop.
It was much the same story in the next
Egypts Omneya Abdel Kawy (right) and Englands Sarah-Jane Perry in action during
their match yesterday.
two games, Adel taking a big lead only for

Chinappa to ght her way back and taking it on from there. Experience often
has a big say in deciding the outcome of
matches, and this was a classic example.
Its almost after two years that Chinappa has made it to the last eight of a
World Series event her last quarternal showing came at the 2013 Cathay Pacic Hong Kong Open. Its also
her best showing at the Qatar Classic,
where shes returning after 2009.
I might have looked relaxed on
court, but actually I was quite tense
inside. I never played her before but I
knew Yathreb would be tough because
she had a great win over Dipika, so I
just decided to keep it simple, play my
game, stay focused and not get hassled
by any decisions, she said.
I made it hard for myself in the rst
game when I allowed her to get away with

the score, but I made sure I concentrated
on getting the ball deep. This court is
very rewarding when you get your length
right, it really clings to the walls.
It feels nice to be in the quarternals of a World Series event after almost two years. I am feeling good both
mentally and physically, and am not
thinking too far ahead, just taking it
match by match. I have a days rest to
prepare for my next game, which I am
sure will be even tougher. But I am just
trying to enjoy my squash, stay relaxed
and do my best, Chinappa, currently
ranked 17 in the world, added.
The much-awaited all-Egyptian
clash between 18-year-old Gohar and
15-year-old Yousry turned out to be
completely one-sided. The reigning world junior champion, one of the
most promising players among the current lot, put in a ruthless performance
to eliminate her compatriot, who was
competing at a World Series tournament for the rst time ever.
The qualier, ranked 115 in the world,
had stunned world No. 18 Emily Whitlock in the rst round to announce her
arrival on the world stage, but was no
match against Gohar who put her to the
sword in just 23 minutes for the loss of
just nine points.
RESULT (WOMENS ROUND 2)
Joshana Chinappa (IND) bt Yathreb Adel
(EGY) 3-0 (16/14, 11/8, 11/8); 5-Omneya
Abdel Kawy (Egy) 10-Sarah-Jane Perry
(Eng) 3-0 (11/9, 11/7, 15/13); 8-Nouran
Gohar (Egy) Q-Amina Yousry (Egy) 3-0
(11/2, 11/5, 11/2; 4-Laura Massaro Q-Fiona
Moverley (Eng) 3-1 (14/12, 11/9, 5/11, 11/9)
MENS DRAW
Elshorbagy steps closer to fourth straight Doha final

By Satya Rath
Doha
ohamed Elshorbagy seems

to have developed a lasting relationship with Doha.
Or more precisely, with the
new glass court at the Khalifa Tennis &
Squash Complex.
The world No. 1 Egyptian has reached
the title round on his last three appearances at the venue: in the 2012 and 2014
World Championships, besides the
2013 Qatar Classic, which he won.
Yesterday, the 24-year-old took another condent stride towards a fourth
consecutive nal appearance in as
many years with a composed straight
games win over compatriot Mohamed
Abouelghar.
The reigning Qatar Classic champion
needed just 38 minutes to overpower
the 22-year-old qualier, who has just
begun to settle down in the senior ranks
after making waves in the junior circuit. With Ramy Ashour, the man who
beat him here in 2012 and 2014, sitting
out of the tournament with injury, the
road ahead looks clear for Elshorbagy
to take his second straight Qatar Classic crown.
I always enjoy playing in Doha. I
have made the nal here three years in a
row and I hope to keep the trend going.
I enjoy playing on this court; it is fast
and suits my kind of game. And theres
always a good crowd behind me here, so
hopefully that will continue this year as
well, said the hard-hitting Egyptian.
The top seed will be meeting Hong
Kongs Max Lee, who added to the
tournaments string of upsets later in
the evening by outlasting an errorprone No. 5 seed Simon Rosner, in the
quarter-nals tomorrow.
Mohamed Elshorbagy (left) of Egypt plays a shot against compatriot Mohamed Abouelghar during their Qatar Classic squash
championship match at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex yesterday. PICTURES: Nasar TK
German Rosner, who came through a
bruising 86-minute battle with South
African Stephen Coppinger in the rst
round, looked to be feeling the effects
of that match. Sporting a strapping on
his right knee, the 27-year-old clearly
struggled to deal with the pace and
variation of the livewire Hong Kong
player. Lee was quick with the rst two
games, taking just nine and 11 minutes
to go 2-0 up, before the German made
a comeback of sorts, leading 6-2 and
then slugging it out till 9-9, before two
winners from Lee sealed the issue.
Its the rst World Series quarternal for the 27-year-old Lee, who is
being coached by David Palmer, and

the world No. 15 was naturally elated. I
still cant believe I came through... We
have played each other four times before and he has always won. I think Simons movement today was not as good
as he could be, and I took advantage of
that, said Lee.
I tried and played my best, and Im
happy with my performance. I just
focused on my game, my length, on
the simple things. But I need to play
much, much better against Mohamed
(in the quarters). Hes just too good,
Lee added.
Miguel Rodriguez of Colombia got
a walkover to the quarter-nals after

his English opponent Adrian Waller
pulled out in the morning due to injury.
The third-seeded Colombian will meet
dangerous Australian Ryan Cuskelly,
who accounted for Englands Chris
Simpson in straight games.
RESULTS (MENS ROUND 2)
1-Mohamed Elshorbagy (Egy) bt QMohamed Abouelghar (Egy) 3-0 (11/6,
11/8, 11/3; Max Lee (Hkg) bt 5-Simon
Rosner (Ger) 3-0 (11/5, 11/8, 11/9); Q-Ryan
Cuskelly (Aus) bt Chris Simpson (Eng)
3-0 (11-4, 11-6, 11-7); 3-Miguel Rodriguez
(Col) w/o Adrian Waller (Eng)
Germanys Simon Rosner (left) and Max Lee of Hong Kong in action during their
match yesterday. Lee won the match 3-0.

Daily Newspaper - 2015 - 11 - 03 - 000001

Diunggah oleh

Informasi Dokumen

Judul Asli

Hak Cipta

Format Tersedia

Bagikan dokumen Ini

Bagikan atau Tanam Dokumen

Opsi Berbagi

Apakah menurut Anda dokumen ini bermanfaat?

Apakah konten ini tidak pantas?

Hak Cipta:

Format Tersedia

Daily Newspaper - 2015 - 11 - 03 - 000001

Diunggah oleh

Hak Cipta:

Format Tersedia

SPORT | Page 1

Civil Defence Exhibition

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin

Situations have been changing

Push for settlement of

strategies for achieving sustainable

www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals

HE al-Attiyah: says the Gulf countries

Michelle Obama in Doha to attend education conference

ment (QF) chairperson HH

Obama earlier this year.

Vol. XXXVI No. 9895

Emir sends cable

Le Clos takes three gold

he Russian airline whose plane

Deputy PM meets ambassadors

he Court of Appeal has

trong winds and high seas

Workshop discusses steps

he Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has conducted a workshop on the

Participants listen to a presentation during the workshop.

the role of each of the concerned

with emergencies, equipping an

Ooredoo Group picks up 29 Stevies

oredoo has been honoured with 29 awards at

Stevie Awards further recognised Ooredoos outreach work

coms, Brand Experience of Year

Dr Marah and Chairman of the

Emir holds phone

UAE minister meets

Porsche Macan GTS available for order in Qatar

he all-new GTS version of

addition to the Stuttgart-based

The Porsche Macan GTS

can GTS has a top speed of 256

Porsche styling are the standard

the lower areas of the car, as well

Jordanian minister praises

ordanian Minister of Political and Parliamentary

Speaking to Qatar News

Jordan, while expressing his

On the Syrian issue, alKalaldeh expressed his

he State of Qatar is participating in the 38th Session

tion given by the State of Qatar

Minister visits Joaan bin Jassim College

Qatar playing key role in building

he 9th Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers

The Minister discussed how

unique values of each culture.

lamic culture, pointing out that

Interior Ministrys telecommunication

certicate at an event held

bassy in Doha attended the

vided by the MoI to citizens

Vodafone, DFI join hands

n line with its commitment

initiatives that contribute to the

dafone Qatar to give its customers special access to the festival,

get-one free cinema ticket and

the Sandbox interactive digital

QA donates QR83,000 to cancer society

atar Airways has marked

Doha, will go towards Qatar