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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatari tweeters Petrol station launch ‘boycott UK’ campaign shortage hits over FIFA reports DOHA: Qatari social media enthusiasts have launched a campaign on Twitter urging fel- low citizens not to travel to the motorists UK this summer as a show of protest against reports appear- ing in a section of the British CMC receiving lots of complaints media questioning Qatar’s right to host the 2022 FIFA World DOHA: For a motorist in Qatar, the woes motorists face. Cup. filling up his car at a petrol sta- Many old petrol stations in the The boycott call has gone viral tion is becoming as nightmarish city have faced the bulldozers and on Arab social media, with many as having to wade through cha- given way to modern structures. describing the negative media otic and congested city roads For example, the filling sta- campaign against Qatar as a during peak hours. tion that existed near the QNB manifestation of the racist nature Motorists increasingly com- headquarters (adjacent to the old of the British democracy, Al Sharq plain that at any given time Mashreq Bank building) is gone. reported. of the day a petrol station is So is Al Tadamun petrol sta- Ilham Badr, a prominent Qatari crowded with vehicles and queues tion next to Naseem Al Rabeeh woman media personality, on her Dancers perform during the opening ceremony prior to the FIFA World Cup 2014 group A preliminary round match are sometimes frustratingly polyclinic on D Ring Road.