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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Moroccan PM 40pc marriages Rail to cross among Qataris end in divorce DOHA: The rate of divorce in the Qatari community is high, gas pipelines but figures suggest expatriates aren’t too far behind in this respect. Statistics for 2011 reflect that for every 100 marriages that took place in the country in the year, at 24 points there were 40 divorces. Among the expatriate commu- nities the ratio of divorce in the QP, Qatar Rail in talks to solve issue year was 25. In other words, for every 100 expatriate couples tying BY SATISH KANADY Attiq Al Yaeeshi, Lead Process the knot in Qatar, 25 broken mar- Engineer, Transmission and riages were recorded. DOHA: With Qatar Distribution, QP, told The Releasing the figures, the Petroleum’s (QP) gas distri- Peninsula that discussions were Supreme Council of Family Affairs bution network intersecting on with Qatar Rail to address said the Family Counselling Centre Qatar Rail’s proposed Metro the issue. (FCC) had begun pre-marriage network at several places, QP Ali Attiq said intersection of counselling to help fight the high is likely to reroute its network the gas distribution network and divorce rate. And nearly three- at several points. It is in talks the rail network would not force fourths (64.9 percent) of those with Qatar Rail to sort out the QP to redraw its distribution attending the counselling pro- issue.