ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 17 Sport | 28 DFI to screen Milaha net profit Michael Phelps four short films increases by chats with Ato by Qatar and 26 percent in Boldon at Doha GCC directors. the first half. Goals Forum. TUESDAY 28 JULY 2015 • 12 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6505 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Gaza power outage Jail term for Qaradawi slams four expats in Egyptian media forgery case DOHA: A criminal court has sen- tenced four expatriates, including two women, to five year imprison- ment for forging bank documents for distortion and embezzlement. The court has also ordered the first and second accused to together pay a fine of QR1.735m. In addition, the Old speeches being telecast as new first accused will have to return another QR1.735m to the bank. DOHA: Prominent of the scholars who According to the court order, Islamic scholar Dr back the regime three of the accused will be Yusuf Al Qaradawi actively involved deported to their respective home (pictured) has in the campaign countries, once they complete accused the against Al Qaradawi. their jail term, Al Sharq reported. Egyptian TV These are people The court ordered the employer channels support- who have already to sack the first accused, a bank ing the military lost their credibility employee, from his job. The first, regime of distort- because of their sup- second and fourth accused will ing his speeches. port to injustice and be deported after completing the Dr Al Qaradawi support to a “non- period of imprisonment and all stated yesterday legitimate” regime. Palestinian boys stand inside their damaged home in Al Tufah, in the east of Gaza City, yesterday during a power forged documents will be confiscated. that Egyptian TV The statement outage. Residents of Gaza, home to 1.8 million people, have been experiencing up to 15 hours of electricity A witness to the case, who is channels were noted that Al outage a day for the past two weeks due to fuel and power shortages. also a bank employee, deposed taking selective Qaradawi’s view on before the court that she saw one excerpts from his “martyrdom opera- of the female accused coming to old speeches and telecasting tions” has been explained in his the bank with the third accused, them as new. book “Jurisprudence of Jihad”. who is an account holder in a He condemned the media for He had said “martyrdom opera- another branch of the same bank. their false propaganda, clarifying tions” were allowed only for “The accused was in a veil and that those speeches were deliv- Palestinians due to their excep- Trade surplus declines 52pc wanted to withdraw money. She ered way back in 2013, much tional situations. requested for a counter cheque, before the military coup in Egypt. Explaining further he notes: DOHA: Qatar’s trade surplus imports decreased by 3.6 percent. During June 2015, Parts of air- saying she doesn’t have a perma- A statement issued by his office Palestinians now manage to make in June 2015 fell to QR14.9bn The year-on-year (y-o-y) craft and helicopters etc., were nent cheque book yet. The amount said: “The TV channels that sup- rockets, which are capable of hit- ($4.09bn), registering a decline decrease in total value of exports at the top of the imported group demanded was QR900,000. I port the military coup regime are ting deep inside Israel, though not of QR16.4bn ($4.5bn), or 52.5 was mainly due to lower exports of commodities, with QR0.9bn, handed it over to the third accused,” broadcasting selective parts of as effective as Israeli weapons. But percent, from a year ago. of Petroleum gases and other showing an increase of 97.3 per- the witness told the court. my speech on ‘martyrdom opera- they have emerged as a medium of The value of total exports of gaseous hydrocarbons (LNG, cent compared to June 2014. THE PENINSULA tion’ giving a wrong impression self-defence. Therefore, martyr- goods in June 2015, (including condensates, propane, butane, Motor cars and other passen- to the audience that I am speak- dom operations are not a mode exports of goods of domestic ori- etc.) reaching QR14.5bn in June ger vehicles ranked second with ing about the current situation in of resistance in Palestine. gin and re-exports) amounted to 2015, i.e. a decrease of 44.6 per- QR800m, an increase of 26.1 Kerry to meet Egypt.” The fact is that the speech The exceptional situation in QR24.1bn ($6.62bn), a decrease cent, Petroleum oils & oils from percent, followed by electrical was delivered on March 21, 20013. Palestine is not applicable to of 40.4 percent compared to June bituminous minerals (crude) apparatus for line telephony/ Lavrov in Doha Anyone who has been following Al Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi 2014. Whereas the total exports reaching QR3.2bn 57.5 percent, telegraphy, telephone sets etc. Qaradawi’s speeches and state- Arabia Iraq, Pakistan and other of goods in June decreased by 2.9 and Petroleum oils & oils from with QR200m. WASHINGTON: US Secretary ments can find that he has always countries. It is not legitimate to percent compared to May 2015, bituminous minerals (not crude) In June 2015, United States of of State John Kerry will travel to emphasized a peaceful revolution. follow the Palestinian method in according to Ministry of devel- reaching QR1.3bn 46.6 percent. America was the leading country Egypt and the Gulf next week for He has always made it clear that he these places. Al Qaradawi’s views opment Planning and Statistics. In June 2015, Japan was at the of origin of Qatar’s imports with talks on Iran and the fight against supported non-violent revolutions, on ‘martyrdom operations’ are On the other hand, the import top of the countries of destination QR1.1bn, a share of 12.3 percent IS militants. Kerry will visit Cairo despite detention, torture, snoop- not limited to him alone. Dozens value of goods in June 2015 of Qatar’s exports with QR4.5bn, of the total imports, followed by on August 2. On August 3, he will ing and deaths that the protestors of Muslim scholars subscribe to amounted to QR9.2bn ($2.53bn), a share of 18.5 percent of total China with QR1bn 10.9 percent, travel to Doha to meet with GCC face, the statement added. his view on the issue, the state- an increase of 1.6 percent over exports, followed by South Korea and United Arab Emirates with counterparts. In Doha, Kerry will The statement further said: ment added. June 2014. However, on a month- with QR4.3bn 17.8 percent and QR900m 9.6 percent. also meet his Russian counterpart It is not surprising to see some THE PENINSULA on-month (m-o-m) basis the India with QR2.3bn 9.6 percent. THE PENINSULA Sergei Lavrov. REUTERS Arab ministers US, Turkey to create to meet after Al Aqsa clashes ‘IS-free zone’ in Syria CAIRO: Arab League foreign ANKARA: The US and Turkey a certain result,” he told ATV ministers will meet in Cairo have agreed to work together to television, urging the Kurdish early next month to discuss drive Islamic State (IS) jihad- separatists to deliver on its 2013 clashes involving Israeli police at ists from northern Syria, senior promise to lay down arms. the Al Aqsa mosque compound in US officials said yesterday, as Turkey has called an extraordi- Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet nary Nato meeting today over its official said yesterday. Davutoglu vowed to press ahead “anti-terror” offensive against the Chief Palestinian negotiator with parallel strikes against Kurdish rebels and IS. Nato chief Saeb Erakat said that foreign Kurdish militants. Jens Stoltenberg backed Turkey’s ministers from 15 Arab states will The potentially game-changing right to defend itself but told meet on August 5 to discuss what accord with the US was revealed the BBC Sunday “of course self- he called the “dangerous develop- as Turkey fuelled the growing defence has to be proportionate”. ment” in Jerusalem. anger of its Kurdish minority He also cautioned Ankara about They will discuss “Israeli by shelling a Kurdish-held vil- burning bridges with the Kurds. escalations at Al-Aqsa mosque, A Houthi militant walks in front of a government compound, destroyed by recent Saudi-led air strikes, in Yemen’s lage in northern Syria while its “For years there has been progress continuing settlements, extra- northwestern city of Amran yesterday. warplanes continued to pound to try to find a peaceful political judicial arrests and assassina- Kurdish targets in northern Iraq. solution,” he told Norwegian state tions and forced displacements” Referring to Islamic State, a broadcaster NRK. of Palestinians, he said. AFP senior US official said that Ankara Davutoglu told a group of Friendly fire kills 12 Hadi loyalists and Washington aimed “to estab- Turkish newspaper editors that lish an ISIL-free zone and ensure Ankara’s intervention in Iraq and A P J Abdul Kalam ADEN: Warplanes from the which has waged four months of EU foreign affairs chief greater security and stability Syria would “change the balance” dead, India mourns Saudi-led coalition fighting air strikes in support of exiled Federica Mogherini held talks along Turkey’s border with Syria”. in the region, but ruled out send- Iran-backed rebels in Yemen President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, in Riyadh with Saudi Foreign Details of the zone “remain to be ing ground troops into Syria.