Ashghal Opens Key Interchange and Bridge
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BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 GWC profi t jumps Rayyan 11% to strike late to QR150mn INDEX split points DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 3-13 COMMENT 30, 31 in the third REGION 14 BUSINESS 1-9, 21-24 quarter with Jaish 18,066.00 10,438.45 50.88 ARAB WORLD 14, 15 CLASSIFIED 10-20 -42.00 -13.66 +0.25 INTERNATIONAL 16-29 SPORTS 1-12 -0.23% -0.13% +0.49% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 SUNDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10250 October 23, 2016 Muharram 22, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Doha visit In brief Ashghal opens QATAR | Diplomacy Emir to visit Turkey today key interchange HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani heads to Istanbul today for a short work visit to Turkey. During the visit, HH the Emir will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss and bridge bilateral relations and other issues of common concern. On Tuesday, The new junction will make Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Aff airs Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain arrived in Doha yesterday on an off icial alternative access roads available Mevlut Cavusoglu will pay an off icial visit. He was received at Hamad International Airport by HE the Minister of from Lusail City to Izghawa area visit to Qatar. Page 4 Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti. Qatar’s ambassador onto Al Shamal Road to Pakistan, Saqer Mubarak al-Mansouri, and Pakistan’a ambassador to Qatar, QATAR | Talks Shahzad Ahmed, were also present on the occasion. Page 7 wo key elements of the North Venezuela leader Road Enhancement Project - the TIzghawa Interchange and a bridge due in Doha linking Al Huwaila Road with North Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro Road - were opened to traffi c yesterday. arrives in Doha today on an off icial The Izghawa Interchange provides a visit to Qatar. HH the Emir Sheikh Clashes and air strikes key connection to populated areas as it Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and consists of three graded levels, ranging A view of the bridge linking Al Huwaila Road with North Road. President Maduro, during their from single to four lanes in each direc- meeting tomorrow, will discuss break Aleppo ceasefi re tion, besides a traffi c signal, according new bridge at the Izghawa Interchange ice roads that connect local roads in the bilateral relations and ways to to a press statement issued by Ashghal. to traffi c for commuters heading to Al Kaaban area with Al Huwaila Road. develop them in addition to a host of AFP eral areas along the front line dividing The new junction will make alterna- Doha, while a road linking Al Shamal The opening was attended by Nasser regional and international issues. Aleppo, Syria the city, with three people wounded tive access roads available from Lusail Road with Lusail City was opened on Ghaith al-Kuwari, Expressway Depart- by shelling of the rebel-held Salahed- City to Izghawa area onto Al Shamal September 21. ment manager, Public Works Author- din and Al-Mashhad districts. Road, which is supposed to be the main The authority yesterday also opened ity (Ashghal); Mubarak al-Kuwari, Al eavy clashes erupted between And the fi rst air strikes since the route to commercial projects there. a bridge linking Al Huwaila Road with Daayen Municipality director; Mo- regime and opposition forc- end of the truce hit the opposition- The junction will also provide better North Road. The Lehwaila Interchange hamed Saeed al-Muhannadi, repre- Hes in Syria’s divided city of controlled district of Sheikh Saeed access to local roads and alleviate traf- is composed of two separate levels sentative of Al Khor and Al Thakhira Aleppo late yesterday after a unilateral where there was also heavy fi ghting, fi c congestion on the northern side of with two and three lanes in each di- Municipality director; Rashid Taleb al- ceasefi re announced by government the monitor said. Doha Golf Club, West Bay, Legtaifi ya, rection. The new junction links North Nabet, director of the Road Transport ally Russia expired. An AFP correspondent in rebel- Al Khor Coastal Road and the north- Road with Al Huwaila Road, which was Planning Department at the Ministry Moscow had extended the uni- held eastern districts also reported western side of Lusail Development opened to traffi c lately, and it would of Transport and Communications lateral “humanitarian pause” into a sounds of fi ghting and artillery fi re. Project, according to the statement. enhance traffi c fl ow from and into the (MoTC); a number of MoTC offi cials; third day until 1600 GMT yesterday, The pause in fi ghting began on The intersection will help more local Ras Laff an area, the authority stressed. Captain Mohamed Misfi r al-Hajri, but announced no further renewal Thursday. access roads to ensure smooth traffi c The Lehwaila Interchange bridge will Traffi c Planning Section head at the of the truce despite a UN request for More than 2,000 civilians have into Al Gharafa, the southwestern side facilitate free-fl owing traffi c for heavy General Traffi c Department; as well as longer to evacuate wounded civil- been wounded since the regime forces of Education City, Al Khartiyat and and light vehicles coming from Ras Central Municipal Council members, ians. launched their off ensive to drive the Umm Salal Mohamed on the north- Laff an and heading towards Doha via Al including Mubarak Fereesh, Rabeea The Syrian Observatory for Human rebels out of the eastern districts they western side. Shamal Road. Hamad al-Kaabi and Saeed Mubarak Rights reported fi erce fi ghting in sev- have held since 2012. Page 14 On June 30, Ashghal had opened a In addition, the intersection has serv- al-Rashidi. Page 12 Gulf Times Sunday, October 23, 2016 3 QATAR Transport Minister meets Swedish envoy HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti holding talks with Ewa Polano, ambassador of Sweden to Qatar, in Doha yesterday. They discussed bilateral relations between Qatar and Sweden in the fields of transportation and communications, and means of further enhancing them. Qatar calls for steps to end aggression in Syria QNA man rights in Syria. pitals, schools and markets Syrian regime and its allies Doha The statement was read as well as humanitarian aid have covered up the demo- by HE the Permanent Rep- convoys. graphic changes they have resentative of Qatar to the He added that the con- been doing in other cities atar has stressed the United Nations and inter- tinued bombardment of and villages. importance of im- national organisations in under-siege Eastern Alep- He called on the interna- Qplementing Geneva 1 Geneva Faisal bin Abdullah po, where 275,000 people tional community to show and UN Security resolution al-Henzab. reside, can turn the area into that the fi ght of the Syrian on ending acts of aggres- He said the current ses- a mass grave. people against dictatorship sion in Syria and allowing sion was held to discuss de- He added that it was un- in demand for freedom, jus- the delivery of humanitar- velopments in Aleppo and acceptable that the inter- tice and dignity cannot turn ian aid. what the city is witnessing national community has into crimes broadcast on the This came during a from crimes committed by failed in stopping the Syrian news. statement by the State the Syrian regime and its al- regime’s crimes against the He stressed that the war of Qatar in the 25th spe- lies. Syrian people over the past will end some day, and those cial session of the Human He said that they have fi ve-and-a-half years. responsible for the crimes Rights Council on the de- been using heavy weapons Al-Henzab highlighted against the Syrian people teriorating situation of hu- and targeting civilians, hos- that the attacks made by the will be held accountable. Gulf Times 4 Sunday, October 23, 2016 QATAR Advisory Council takes Turkish FM to visit part in IPU Assembly Qatar on Tuesday The Advisory (Shura) Council takes part in the 135th Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly due in Aff airs Mevlut Cavusoglu will QRCS launches Geneva from October 23 to 27, with a delegation pay an off icial visit to the State headed by the Deputy Speaker of the Advisory of Qatar on Tuesday to resume Council, Issa bin Rabia al-Kuwari. The agenda of the the procedures for holding the Assembly includes the election of the president and Qatari-Turkish Supreme Strategic campaign to help vice-presidents of the 135th Assembly, a general Committee. Cavusoglu will also debate on the theme human rights abuses and focus on bilateral relations and freedom of women to participate in political processes. the means to enhance them. displaced Iraqis n response to the alarming situation in Mosul, Nineveh and the probable wave of displacement across Iraq due to the current Imilitary operations, Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has activated its emergency operations room at Doha headquarters to collect information about the condition of displaced people in the strife-torn country. Real-time reports are received from QRCS’s mission in Iraq and its field groups, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Af- fairs (OCHA). A relief campaign has been launched to help more than 120,000 Iraqis expected to fl ee Mosul over the coming few days. Also, an Food items distributed by QRCS to displaced Iraqis at one of the camps.