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MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2015 • 18 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6511 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Strict rules High tide for budget estimates Details of expatriate staff sought DOHA: The government has employees who are on their verge given strict directives to the of retirement and the number of ministries, government agen- Qatari employees required to fill up cies and the companies that are these vacant posts should also be fully or partially funded by it, to furnished in the budget estimates. firmly go by the guidelines while As per the guidelines, the con- preparing the budget estimate cerned government offices are for ‘salaries and expenditures’ required to give exact details of for the next fiscal, beginning the total fund required for main- January 2016. taining the existing staff for the The Ministry of Administrative ongoing interim budget period Development has laid out seven (April 2015-December 2015). specific guidelines, the govern- The budget estimate should The sea rose to unusual levels and water spilled on to the pavement off the Corniche due to high tide yesterday. The sea rose up to 3 feet onshore ment entities are supposed to not reflect the fund expected and 3 to 4 feet offshore. The weather department has forecast a rough sea today as well. The maximum temperature in Doha is expected to hover strictly follow while preparing against the existing vacant over 43 degrees. ABDUL BASIT the budget estimate. The circu- posts. The draft estimate should lar was issued by the Minister of also include details of the ‘cost’ Administrative Development H E of vacant jobs that are existing in Dr Issa Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi the respective offices during the and sent to various ministries and interim budget period. concerned government agencies. The details of fund to be UAE to try 41 for plotting ‘caliphate’ The Ministry’s circular wants incurred due to future placements all concerned government enti- and existing employees contract ABU DHABI: The United The suspects, who include of explosives in preparation for wave of Arab Spring protests that ties to provide a detailed account renewals should find their place Arab Emirates is to try 41 Emiratis as well as foreigners, attacks on UAE soil. swept the region four years ago. on the possibilities of replacing in the new budget estimate. people for allegedly seeking to are accused of setting up a group Prosecutors charge that they In July, following the murder of existing expatriate employees Ministries and government overthrow the government to “with a terrorist, takfiri (Sunni were “in contact with foreign an American teacher in an Abu with skilled professional Qataris offices are required to furnish set up an Islamic State group- Muslim extremist) ideology,” in terrorist organisations... to help Dhabi mall, authorities enacted in various posts. the additional expenses they are style caliphate in the Gulf state, a bid to “seize power and estab- them achieve their goals.” tougher anti-terror legislation, The government entities incurring due to the promotion prosecutors said yesterday. lish a caliphate,” the prosecutor The UAE is part of the US-led including harsher jail terms and are expected to furnish the of current employees during the Such mass trials on terrorism general said. coalition that has been carrying even introducing the death pen- details of the positions being ongoing interim budget period. charges are rare in the UAE which They are accused of setting up out air strikes against IS in Syria alty for crimes linked to religious held by expatriate employees in Continued on page 3 has largely been spared militancy cells to train members in handling since September last year and has hatred and “takfiri groups”. each office. The details of Qatari THE PENINSULA that has hit other Arab states. weapons and the manufacture upped security measures since the AFP Clashes erupt at Aqsa mosque Fire breaks out on two in Jerusalem streets in Al Sailiyah JERUSALEM: Clashes broke DOHA: The Al Sailiyah area witnessed two separate incidents of out yesterdayat Jerusalem’s Al fire breakouts yesterday. Several single workers lost their belong- Aqsa mosque, one of Islam’s ings, when a furnishing workshop functioning on Street No.18 holiest sites, two days after a caught fire, around 1 pm. Palestinian toddler was burned The buildings attached to the workshop and their first floors were alive in a firebombing by sus- occupied by labourers. Many of them are construction workers. pected Jewish extremists. Though the Civil Defence rushed to the scene and put out the blaze, Police said masked Palestinian nearly 30 single workers lost their personal belongings. “No one was youths at the mosque threw injured , but we lost our clothes and other precious belongings. While, stones at security forces while rushing out some people even lost their wallets”, an Asian worker told protesters held aloft photographs this paper over phone. of the 18-month-old child killed The company authorities have arranged an alternative accommoda- in Friday’s arson attack in the tion for the workers near their work site. occupied West Bank. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said no one was injured in the Israeli media reported that accident. security forces later sought to Almost an hour ago, around 12 noon, another fire was reportedly create a barrier between the broke out in a commercial space on Street No.26. However, the details stone-throwers and tourists visit- of this incidents are yet to be confirmed. ing the mosque complex, the third Labourers inspect their accommodation attached to a furnishing workshop on Street No.18 in Al Sailiyah after the This is the third incident of fire breakout reported from Sailiyah in holiest site in Islam and the holi- fire yesterday. (More pictures on page 3) BAHER AMIN a week. THE PENINSULA est for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount. Calm began to return to the hilltop complex in Jerusalem’s Old City later in the morning, a photographer reported. A wave of protests has swept the Palestinian US, Egypt returning to stronger relations: Kerry territories since Friday’s fire- bombing, which also critically wounded the toddler’s four-year- CAIRO: The United States conference with Foreign Minister scepticism by Washington’s Arab were “differences in points of is a terrorist group that poses a old brother and parents. and Egypt are returning to a Sameh Shukri. “But we have mul- allies. “There can be absolutely no view over some issues, which is threat to national security. The There have also been demon- “stronger base” in bilateral ties tiple issues that we need to work question that the Vienna plan, if natural”. Interior Ministry denies allega- strations by Israelis and calls for a despite tensions and human on simultaneously.” implemented, will make Egypt While Washington supports tions of widespread human rights crackdown on Jewish extremists. rights concerns, US Secretary US-Egyptian relations cooled and all the countries of this region former general Abdel Fattah Al abuses. In one such rights case, a On Saturday, clashes broke out of State John Kerry said yes- after Islamist president Mohamed safer than they otherwise would Sisi, who led Mursi’s overthrow Cairo court yesterday postponed at Jalazon refugee camp in the terday after talks with his Mursi was ousted in 2013 by be,” he said. and was elected to succeed him, giving its verdict in the retrial of Al West Bank, where the funeral Egyptian counterpart. the military amid mass pro- Kerry said Iran’s role as the it has also cautiously criticised Jazeera television journalists accused took place for Laith Khaldi, 16, “Egypt remains vital ... to tests against his rule. But Cairo “number one state sponsor of ter- Egypt’s human rights record. of aiding a terrorist organisation, who the army said was shot by engagement and stability in the remains one of Washington’s clos- ror in the world” made the nuclear Following Mursi’s ouster, a reference to the Brotherhood. soldiers after hurling a Molotov region as a whole,” said Kerry, est security allies in the Middle deal even more important. Cairo launched a tough crack- Shukri said no journalists in Egypt cocktail. Israel faced mounting who held the first strategic dia- East, an increasingly crucial role “If Iran is destabilising, it is far, down on the now outlawed were in jail over their reporting. The pressure to crack down on Jewish logue between the two countries in a region beset by turmoil in far better to have an Iran that Muslim Brotherhood. Security Committee to Protect Journalists extremists after a firebombing since 2009. “There are obviously Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. doesn’t have a nuclear weapon forces killed hundreds of said a prison census it had conducted that killed a Palestinian child circumstances where we have Kerry also used the visit to than one that does,” he said. Brotherhood supporters, jailed on June 1 found at least 18 Egyptian and the stabbing of six Gay Pride found reason to have grave con- lobby for last month’s nuclear Shukri told journalists his thousands of others. They then journalists were being held in jail for marchers drew widespread out- cern and we have expressed it deal between world powers and country had no major disagree- went after liberal activists. reasons related to their reporting.