ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER QP showcases Sri Lanka expertise in hold out for Moscow dramatic draw Business | 17 Sport | 25 Tuesday 17 June 2014 • 19 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6099 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 MoI cautions Liberal job against replying to anonymous market to be emails DOHA: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) yesterday issued an advisory cautioning people against responding to put in place emails and text messages from unknown sources. Senders of such messages and mails request the receivers to help Minister reiterates Qatar’s pledge them by transferring money. DOHA: Qatar yesterday reit- market — a market which is free “Be careful to protect your- erated its pledge to put in of barriers that hinder effective self from fraud on the Internet place a liberal job market and contribution of the Qatari and by not responding to random said rules were being changed expatriate workforce to social e-mails coming from unknown whereby expatriates would be and economic growth,” said Al sources. Some fraudsters are able to change jobs based on the Khulaifi. using WhatsApp (an application contract they sign with their The government is busy for- to send messages through mobile employer. mulating new criteria for labour phones) to cheat people, seeking Current exit permit rules camps with a view to ensuring help through messages,” the min- would be abolished and the that lodgings for workers here istry said yesterday on Twitter. employment contract of a worker meet global standards. “The message contains pic- would be of supreme importance The labour ministry is coor- ture and video requesting help in the new system. dinating with the Ministry of and money transfer. We advise In the new system, it would Municipality and Urban Planning Anti-war groups hold a demonstration against any US intervention in Iraq in front of the White House in Washington all citizens and expatriates not suffice for workers to verbally to put in place new guidelines for yesterday. to respond to such mails and inform their employers and labour camps. messages from unknown sources travel overseas, said the Minister Al Khulaifi said a national and immediately inform security of Labour and Social Affairs, H E committee formed earlier with agencies,” it said. Dr Abdullah bin Saleh Mubarak members from different min- In case anyone in Qatar Al Khulaifi. istries and government agen- Saudi, Qatar blame Maliki for unrest receives such mails or messages, Talking about expatriates cies had reviewed standards for they should e-mail the ministry changing jobs in the new regime, labour camps. RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and “reinstate security and stability.” US-Iranian dialogue,” said Sagr. at [email protected] he reiterated that one would be The review includes recom- Qatar have blamed “sectarian” The unrest “could not have Qatar’s Foreign Minister H E Fraudsters use phone calls, able to change jobs at the end of mendations made earlier for policies by Iraq’s Shia-led gov- taken place if it was not for the Khaled bin Mohamad Al Attiyah emails, and other methods to one’s contractual period if the building future labour cities, said ernment against the Sunni Arab sectarian and exclusionary policies said the trigger for the unrest obtain personal information, then contract was for a fixed period. the minister. He was addressing minority for the unrest that has implemented in Iraq over the past was the marginalisation of Iraq’s use it to commit identity theft. About open-ended contracts ‘Doha Dialogue on Migration swept the country. years that threatened its stability Sunni Arabs. He cited as exam- Usually an email, letter or text (where a specific period is not 2014’ after formally opening it. Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, and sovereignty,” the government ples the dispersal by security message from an overseas lottery mentioned), an expatriate would The two-day-event is being whose relations with the govern- said in a statement. forces of peaceful protest camps company arrives. It informs the be able to change jobs only after held by Qatar Red Crescent ment of Prime Minister Nuri Al It underlined the need for the maintained by the minority com- receiver that he/she has won a five years, said the minister. In in cooperation with the Maliki have been strained, also “participation of all components munity in April 2013 and January lot of money or a prize in a lot- both cases, workers would not International Committee of the warned against foreign interven- of the Iraqi people in determining this year. “This has deepened the tery competition. The receiver is need permission from their Red Cross and Red Crescent. tion in Iraq. the future” of the country. divide between the components urged to keep this information employers to change jobs, he Meanwhile, an official from Militants, spearheaded by the Riyadh said it rejected any for- of the brotherly Iraqi people,” private or confidential for secu- stressed. Qatar Red Crescent told Al Sharq jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and eign intervention in Iraq’s internal Attiyah said in comments reported rity or to stop other people from Al Khulaifi said the draft law that a huge corpus (fund) will be the Levant and joined by support- affairs, an apparent reference to by Qatar News Agency. getting their ‘prize’ by mistake. containing the proposed changes set up for the welfare of labour- ers of executed dictator Saddam talk of intervention by its regional He urged the Iraqi government The receiver is usually asked to in sponsorship and exit permit ers in Qatar. Several prominent Hussein, have in the past week rival Tehran. to take into consideration the pay some fees to get his winnings rules for foreign workers was business groups like Al Fardan, overrun a large chunk of northern Saudi analyst Abdel Aziz Al “demands of a large part of the released. with the authorities for review. United Development Company and north-central Iraq. Sagr said Riyadh was concerned population who are only asking for The scammers often say these “The Ministry of Labour and and Chevron Philip have agreed Saudi Arabia, which shares its US ally might give Tehran its equality and participation, away fees are to cover insurance costs, Social Affairs is committed to to support this fund. long borders with Iraq, urged tacit blessing for such an inter- from sectarian discrimination.” government taxes, bank fees or doing its best to realise the vision Continued on page 5 the swift formation of a national vention. “We need a regional AFP courier charges. of the Emir to create a liberal job THE PENINSULA consensus government to work to coordination over Iraq, not a See also page 7 THE PENINSULA Germany thrash Portugal Jazeera journalist Shura Council for taxing ordered freed foreign stock investors CAIRO: Egypt’s prosecutor general yesterday ordered the DOHA: The Advisory Council H E Mohamed bin Mubarak Al release of Al Jazeera journalist is all for taxing foreign stock Khulaifi, at the end of discussions Abdullah Elshamy, who has been investors on capital gains and on the issue, noted that foreign on hunger strike for nearly five income earned from cash divi- investors make huge profits on months, state media reported. dends and interest on bonds, the robust Qatari equity market. Al Jazeera swiftly issued a treasury bills and debentures. Many of these investors exit statement calling for the release In a bold step, the Council yes- after making profits, without of three other staff on trial in a terday rejected a proposal by the benefiting Qatar’s economy in any separate case. government to exempt foreign way. They are able to earn profits Elshamy, who works for the investors in the local equity mar- because the Qatari government main Arabic-language channel ket from paying the above tax. provides them the opportu- of the Qatar-based network, was The State Cabinet had, on nity and a safe environment for arrested on August 14 last year February 19, 2014, approved a investment and various other when police dispersed protest draft law that sought to allow facilities. But the government camps in Cairo set up by support- foreign stock investors, including doesn’t benefit in the process. ers of Mursi. individuals, corporates and insti- The Speaker argued that given “He will be out of Torah prison tutions, the above exemption. the situation, non-Qatari stock once we finish the release pro- The Cabinet had argued investors should be treated as cedures tomorrow (Tuesday) that the exemption would help foreign owners in Qatari compa- morning,” the journalist’s lawyer increase the inflow of foreign nies whose stakes are limited, as Shaaban Saeed said. funds into the Qatari equity mar- they must have a Qatari partner. AFP ket from individuals and insti- Continued on page 5 See also page 6 Portugal’s Pepe (left) headbutts Germany’s Thomas Mueller, which earned him a red card, during their 2014 tutions such as hedge, pension, THE PENINSULA World Cup Group G soccer match in Salvador yesterday. Germany won 4-0. See also pages 26, 27 & 28 investment and mutual funds. After it received the draft law from the State Cabinet, the Council referred it to its internal Financial and Economic Affairs Today’s Israel presses Abbas over kidnapping of teens Committee for review. matches The Committee approved the JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Netanyahu’s phone call to Abbas As the manhunt entered its condemning “the kidnapping draft and sent it back to the GROUP H: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was their first direct political con- fourth day, Israeli troops arrested of three Israeli youths”.