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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Heir Apparent receives AFC president Plan for more New facility floors on D-Ring Road rejected DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Urban planned to Planning has turned down a proposal by the Central Municipal Council (CMC) to allow more floors for buildings on the D-Ring Road. CMC Chairman Saud Al house strays Hanzab said that he had received a letter from the Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning 57,000 cats caught in seven years HE Sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Khalifa Al Thani in this regard. DOHA: A state-run stray con- making animal protection com- The proposal has been rejected trol and animal protection pulsory in the GCC was ready and on the ground that adding more department has caught some could be enforced sooner rather floors to buildings on this major 57,000 stray cats from the coun- than later. highway could undermine urban try’s streets in the past seven The CMC, meanwhile, urged and transportation plans for the years. the Ministry of Municipality and area and the city, the Minister And since 2010, the number Urban Planning to provide a plot The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, also Chairman of Qatar Olympic Committee, received told the CMC, Al Sharq reported of stray dogs caught by the of land on lease or a ready facility Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa at the Emiri Diwan yester- yesterday.