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Page 01 Oct 27.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 18 Sport | 26 Qatar Charity Qatar Airways Qatar promotes begins project to unveils new Doha 2016 purify rainwater service to Worlds in Gaza. Birmingham. in Egypt. TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2015 • 13 Muharram 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6596 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Kazakhstan President Emir invited to Qatar-US deal Riyadh summit DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has received a written message for economic from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Ara- bia, containing an invitation to the Emir to attend the Fourth dialogue Summit of Arab-South American Countries to be held in Riyadh in November. The message was handed over Dialogue to serve as annual forum by the Saudi Ambassador to Qatar, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al By Satish Kanady together in one area will find it Aifan, when the Emir met him easier to do so in another. And of at the Emiri Diwan yesterday DOHA: Qatar and the US signed course, our economic strength can morning. a memorandum of understanding go a long way in enhancing our Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Special (MoU) in Washington, DC yes- strength and ability to deal with Representative of the Emir, with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Emir greets terday to establish economic and different issues around the world. Report on page 2 investment dialogue between the Today we recognise in a more for- Austria president two countries. mal way a reality that’s been clear The MoU was signed by For- for some time: The United States DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim eign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin and Qatar are partners economi- bin Hamad Al Thani sent yes- Mohamed Al Attiyah and the US cally just as we are in the secu- Earthquake terday a cable of congratulations Secretary of State John Kerry. rity sphere”, he said in the live Nearly 280 killed in to the President of Austria, Dr The Minister of Finance, video press conference posted on signals picked Heinz Fischer, on his country’s H E Ali Sherif Al Emadi, Qatar US Department of State’s official National Day. Investment Authority CEO twitter handle. up in Doha QNA Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed The United States greatly Afghanistan quake bin Saud Al Thani, and Qatar’s appreciates the chance today to DOHA: Qatar’s Seismology Ezdan profit rises Ambassador to Washington host our senior counterparts from Network detected yesterday’s ISLAMABAD: Nearly 280 peo- “Many houses and buildings Mohamed Jaham Al Kuwari were Qatar, and indeed, this recipro- earthquake that rocked north- ple were killed yesterday when have collapsed in the city,” said to QR1.22bn present at the event. cates in a small way the gracious eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan a powerful 7.5-magnitude earth- Arbab Muhammad Asim, district Through the MoU, the two sides hospitality of the foreign minister and North India, claiming 280 quake centred in the Hindu Kush mayor for the northwestern city DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group plan to establish an economic and for Secretary Kerry when he was lives and leaving many injured and mountains in Afghanistan ripped of Peshawar. Many people were has recorded a net profit of investment dialogue to serve as welcomed to Qatar in August for homeless. across South Asia, toppling build- trapped under piles of rubble, QR1.22bn for the period ended a mechanism for holding meet- the meeting of the GCC foreign The 7.7 magnitude tremor was ings, triggering stampedes and with officials warning that the September 2015, up 20pc com- ings and coordination between ministers. That session was part detected by Qatar’s Seismology knocking out communication toll was set to rise. pared to QR1.01bn in the same the ministries and economic and of the ongoing collaboration on Network at 12.09pm local time. lines. “The building was swinging like period last year. The jump in prof- commercial bodies in the govern- security issues between the US The earthquake epicentre was The full scale of the disaster a pendulum, it felt as if the heav- its is attributed to the stability of ments of both countries. and the Gulf states, he said. about 269km from the Afghan and human toll was unclear when ens would fall,” Peshawar shop Qatari market and the continued The dialogue will serve as an Blinken said Qatar is a coun- capital Kabul and was 215km night fell over the remote and owner Tufail Ahmed told AFP. growth in its revenue. annual forum for convening key try that plays diplomatic and deep. It was felt by residents in rugged terrain as authorities in Afghan officials said at least See also page 17 decision makers to identify con- strategic role in its own region, high-rise buildings in Doha as Pakistan and Afghanistan rushed 63 people were confirmed dead crete steps to bolster the bilateral and indeed, beyond its region. It’s well. to mount rescue efforts. and hundreds more injured, with UDC third quarter financial, investment, and eco- an influential contributor to the “We would like to confirm that In the most horrifying trag- casualties reported from around nomic relations. Trade between political and security debates in there is no need to panic as the edy to emerge so far from the half a dozen. profit at QR595m US and Qatar has reached record the Middle East, and a very sig- earthquake is 2,209km away and quake, 12 young Afghan girls were The government has implored levels, and the dialogue promises nificant source of foreign capital. there is no impact on Qatar,” a crushed to death in a stampede aid agencies for relief. DOHA: United Development to help build upon that momen- The Qatar Investment Author- press statement issued by Qatar as they tried to flee their shaking “Today’s earthquake was the Company recorded QR595m tum. Addressing media before ity opened its first office in the Seismic Network said. school building. strongest one felt in the recent net profit for the third quarter the signing ceremony, Antony US in September with its plans to People in towers in the West The bulk of the casualties were decades,” said Afghanistan’s chief of 2015, up 6pc compared to the J Blinken, Deputy Secretary of invest $35bn there over the next Bay area of Doha felt the tremors reported from Pakistan, where executive Abdullah Abdullah. same period in the previous year. State, said economic and security five years. and many rushed out. 214 people were killed and more See also pages 11 & 13 See also page 17 issues often reinforce both US than 1,800 injured, disaster man- and Qatar. “Countries that work THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA agement authorities said. AFP THE PENINSULA Blaze in Amman GCC nations’ Two Turkey cops, seven IS trade volume at $146bn militants killed in shootout DIYARBAKIR: Two Turk- launched air strikes on IS targets hours of heavy fighting, it said. DOHA: Bilateral trade volume ish policemen and seven Islamic in Syria in July. Fears of further The authorities declared the in GCC countries, which stood at State suspects were killed in bloodshed have overshadowed the IS group the number one suspect $5bn in 1983, rose to about $126bn a shootout yesterday that has run-up to Sunday’s vote, with an over the Ankara bombings. in 2014 and to $146bn this year, further rattled the increasingly IS cell reportedly plotting major “This was an important opera- and is expected to reach more polarised country just six days attacks, while Kurdish rebels have tion... we can say we have neutral- than $150bn next year, Abdullah ahead of snap elections. taken up arms again after the col- ised a major Daesh cell,” Deputy Al Shibli, GCC Assistant Secre- Police are hunting down IS mil- lapse of the peace process. Prime Minister Numan Kurtul- tary General for Economic and itants after the suicide bombings A police anti-terrorist squad mus told reporters, using an Ara- Development Affairs said at a ses- that killed 102 people at a pro- launched dawn raids on several bic name for the IS group. sion of the Gulf Economic Forum, Kurdish peace rally in the heart houses in Diyarbakir where mili- President Recep Tayyip which began here on Sunday. of the capital Ankara on October tants were thought to be hiding Erdogan himself has vowed to It discussed the future pros- 10, the worst attack in Turkey’s out. The suspects opened fire and fight all Turkey’s “enemies” as pects of GCC customs union and modern history. set off booby trap bombs, killing his Justice and Development common market. It also addressed Yesterday’s gun battle in the two police officers and injuring Party (AKP) battles to regain the prevailing economic development Jordanian firemen extinguish a blaze at the site where an explosion main southeastern Kurdish city of five, according to the Diyarbakir parliamentary majority it lost in patterns in the Gulf Cooperation ripped through two trucks carrying fireworks in Amman yesterday, kill- Diyarbakir was the first on Turk- governor’s office. June’s election, ending 13 years of Council (GCC). ing five and injuring several more. The fire ripped through the parking ish soil between security forces Seven IS militants were killed single party rule. QNA lot at the Customs Department in the Jordanian capital and damaged and the jihadists since Ankara and 12 arrested after at least two AFP a dozen vehicles.
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