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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 9 July 2013 30 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5755 Price: QR2 Helium2 plant Murray targets at RasGas more Slams after begins output historic win Business | 21 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Pakistan PM congratulates Emir Ramadan Plan to build begins huge fish tomorrow DOHA: The fasting month of Ramadan begins tomorrow, the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic breeding farm Affairs announced yesterday. “July 10 will be the first day of Ramadan for the Islamic calen- dar year –Hijri—1434,” the min- Central fish market to be rebuilt istry said, according to Qatar News Agency (QNA). DOHA: The Ministry of Since the five year plan of the The head of Qatar’s new moon Environment, under which the ministry (2006-11), fishing boats sighting committee, Thaqil bin fisheries department falls, is are not being allowed to venture Saer Al Shummari, said the new building a huge fish breeding into the sea more than three moon was not sighted yesterday farm and has plans to rebuild times a month during the breed- “so the Hijri month of Shaban will and expand the existing central ing period in April and May every be of 30 days and Ramadan (the fish market in the city. year. Hijri month that follows Shaban) The fish market was established Al Mohannadi said that there will begin from Wednesday”. in the 1970s with a capacity of 10 are restrictions on catching king The Ministry of Interior, tonnes, but with the population of fish from August 15 to October 15 meanwhile, announced Ramadan the country and the demand for every year for similar reasons and timings for some of its key depart- fish having multiplied, the market that the Cabinet has approved a The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received yesterday congratulations from Pakistani Prime ments and said some of them will presently handles some 35 tonnes. proposal to give fishing boat own- Minister Nawaz Sharif on the occasion of his assuming the reins of power in the country. The congratulations work in two shifts — morning and The market is to be, therefore, ers monetary compensation and were conveyed by Shahbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Punjab province, at the Emiri Diwan. evening. rebuilt at a huge cost and in three they are provided QR5,000 by the The immigration and traffic phases, said a senior official of the fisheries department during the departments will be open from environment ministry. said season. The total number of 9am to 2pm, and from 8pm until Talking of the fish farming boats engaged in catching king 1am. These timings will also apply facility being set up, Mohamed fish and eligible for compensa- Laden probe slams Pakistan govt to the Nationality and Travel Saeed Al Mohannadi, direc- tion is 192. Documents Department. tor of the fisheries department, Some 428 fishing boats have The traffic investigation said that bids have already been been linked through electronic ISLAMABAD: Osama bin most wanted man was killed on “illegal manner” in which the department will, however, remain invited. devices so they can identify one Laden was able to avoid detec- May 2 that year in an episode that operation was conducted. open round-the-clock. The finger “Work on the project will start another while at sea. In the latter tion and live in plain sight for humiliated Pakistan’s military “The US acted like a crimi- printing section at the External in August this year and would phase other fishing boats would almost a decade due to the and heavily strained ties between nal thug,” said the report by the Services Centers will also work in likely be completed in February also be linked. incompetence and negligence the strategic allies Washington Abbottabad Commission, formed two shifts, from 9am to 2pm and of 2015.” Traditional fishing boats made of Pakistan’s intelligence and and Islamabad. a month after the raid to investi- 8pm to 1am. There are also plans to set up of wood are being provided finan- security services, Pakistan’s The much-anticipated 336- gate the circumstances surround- The finger printing section at an ice factory in the fish market cial assistance of QR15,000 every official report into his killing page report, obtained and circu- ing bin Laden’s killing. the Industrial Area will, though, with a daily production capacity year for maintenance because concluded yesterday. lated late yesterday by Al Jazeera, “But above all, the tragedy work in a single shift, from 9am of eight tonnes. their upkeep is quite expensive. Following a decade-long offered a scathing read, with evi- refers to the comprehensive fail- to 6pm. Another project that is being These boats need to be preserved hunt, the CIA tracked down the dence of incompetence at almost ure of Pakistan to detect the pres- The Criminal Evidences and launched by the ministry is to because they are part of Qatar’s Al Qaeda leader in 2011 to a com- every level of Pakistan’s vast secu- ence of OBL (Osama bin Laden) Information Department’s head set up model research centres for heritage. The official lamented pound within sight of an elite rity apparatus. on its territory for almost a dec- office will be open from 9am to fisheries, animal husbandry and that Qatari youth were not enter- Pakistani military academy in It also chastised Pakistan’s ade or to discern the direction 2pm during the holy month. agriculture. ing the fishing trade due to low Abbottabad, a city close to the leadership for failing to detect of US policy towards Pakistan THE PENINSULA The fisheries research centre profits and so the entire busi- capital Islamabad. CIA activities on its soil in the that culminated in the avoid- will include research on sweet ness was dominated by Asian In a secret night-time mission run-up to the raid, while criti- able humiliation of the people of water fish water fish farming. expatriates. THE PENINSULA by US Navy SEALs, the world’s cising the United States for the Pakistan.” REUTERS More Qatar visas for Pakistanis DOHA: Qatar will increase the quota for Pakistani visas by December this year, the visit- Egypt to hold elections in ing Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif, said yesterday. He was here on a one-day visit to pur- six months; 51 killed sue LNG deals with Qatar. An investment plan to set CAIRO: At least 51 people were killed yesterday of it apparently taken from a helicopter. up a 5,000 megawatt coal-fired when the Egyptian army opened fire on support- Emergency services said 435 people were wounded. power plant in Karachi was also ers of ousted president Mohammed Mursi, in Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood urged people to rise proposed to Qatari investors by the deadliest incident since the elected Islamist up against the army, which they accuse of a coup to Pakistan. leader was toppled by the military five days ago. topple the president. The movement’s leaders are Full report on page 6 A late night announcement by the interim head of calling for peaceful resistance, but the risk remains state said Egypt will hold new parliamentary elec- of fringe elements pursuing a violent agenda. Pilots questioned tions once amendments to its suspended constitu- At a hospital near the Rabaa Adawiya mosque tion are approved in a referendum, setting out a where Islamists have camped out since Mursi was timeframe that could see a legislative vote in about ousted, rooms were crammed with people wounded in air crash probe six months. in the violence, sheets were stained with blood and LOS ANGELES: Investigators Protesters said shooting started as they performed medics rushed to attend to those hurt. probing the Asiana Airlines morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where “They shot us with teargas, birdshot, rubber bul- plane crash in San Francisco Mursi is believed to be held. lets — everything. Then they used live bullets,” said began interviewing cockpit But military spokesman Ahmed Ali said that at Abdelaziz Abdel Shakua, a bearded 30-year-old who crew of the Boeing 777 yester- 4am (0200 GMT) armed men attacked troops in the was wounded in his right leg. day amid mounting indications area around the Republican Guard compound in the Bloody scenes from Cairo, three days after clashes that pilot error may have caused northeast of the city. between pro- and anti-Mursi protesters across the the fatal accident. Two teenage “The armed forces always deal with issues very country claimed 35 lives, have alarmed Egypt’s allies, Chinese girls were killed and Two Muslim Brotherhood members sit in front of barbed wires as army wisely, but there is certainly also a limit to patience,” including Israel, with which it has had a US-backed more than 180 people injured in soldiers keep watch during clashes with Republican Guards in Cairo the uniformed Ali told a news conference, at which peace treaty since 1979. REUTERS the crash. yesterday. he presented what he said was video evidence, some See also page 10 See also page 13 Son disagrees with Qaradawi’s fatwa to support Mursi DOHA: The son of Dr Youssef Al made and none of the things that were reported yesterday quoting an Egyptian people of your generation had.” “You have said (in your fatwa) that Qaradawi, the eminent Islamic cleric, expected of him as head of state. website alyaum7.com. The junior Al “That is why I felt that what you have Egyptians waited for decades to elect a has in a letter addressed to him said “We agreed with him that he would Qaradawi continued: “The current situ- publicly announced is different from president from their free will and you that he doesn’t agree with his recent install a participatory government but ation in Egypt is one of confusion com- what I learnt from you as my father and have asked all sections of Egyptian soci- fatwa calling on the people of Egypt to he didn’t keep his word.