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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 14 March 2013 2 Jumada I 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5638 Price: QR2 Smooth transition F1: Vettel begins to e-freight quest for fourth ‘critical’ world title Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Prince Charles, Camilla in Doha OPINION Rethink plan Why is Iraq supplying oil to shift shops, to Egypt? he Iraqi Tgovern- ment of Nouri urges CMC Al Maliki agreed last week to provide Egypt Ministry not renewing licences with about four million Khalid Al Sayed DOHA: The Central Municipal unprecedented rise in shop rents. barrels of oil. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Council (CMC) has urged the Already, there is a severe short- The develop- Ministry of Business and Trade age of shops in commercial areas,” ment comes to review its decision of not CMC’s vice-chairman, Jassim after the visit of Egyptian PM renewing commercial licences Al Malki, told The Peninsula Hesham Gendel to Iraq, which of neighbourhood stores (gro- yesterday. was the first by a top Egyptian ceries operating in residential The government hasn’t so far official in thirty years. The areas). specified per square metre rent Iraq-Jordan pipeline, that The ministry, it is learnt, is not of commercial space locality-wise, ends at Al Aqaba port, will be renewing the licences of neigh- leaving scope for shop and prop- used to supply the crude oil. bourhood stores which are being erty owners to exploit the demand Egypt has been in the throes asked for several years to shift to and supply situation and shortages of a financial crisis since the commercial areas. to their advantage, said Al Malki. Britain’s Prince Charles (centre) and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (right), arrive with Sheikh Abdul overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. The trade ministry is renewing “We have urged the ministry Rahman bin Saud Al Thani, member of the Board of Trustees of Qatar Museums Authority, to visit the Museum The deal will help fill the gap commercial licences of only eight to postpone its decision until the of Islamic Art in Doha, yesterday. in Egypt’s diesel production, businesses operating in residential plans to shift the neighbourhood which is 22,000 tonnes per day localities, which include schools stores into service centres in each whereas the daily consump- and educational centres like locality materialise,” he said. “It tion is 35,000 tonnes. coaching classes, beauty salons, would take time.” Al Maliki also decided to flower and gift shops, nurseries, The CMC has in the mean time release 33 Egyptian prisoners photo studios, medical centres urged the government to identify Man gets death for drug smuggling in his country and both sides and pathological laboratories. places where the proposed serv- have agreed to look at ending The ministerial decision means ice centres can be built, accord- Egyptian debts, recruiting that all other businesses operating to Al Malki. The plan is to DOHA: A criminal court here when the Border and Coastal was wheat flour that they had Egyptians for work in Iraq. ing in residential areas such as the build a huge service centre com- has sentenced a man to death Security Guards tried to inter- to bring. Obviously, Al Maliki is eager neighbourhood stores, laundries, plex in every residential locality and fined him QR500,000 for cept them. When they reached the island, for reconciliation with the barber shops, engineering, audit and allot shops to neighbourhood smuggling a huge consignment The authorities were tipped the main convict asked his accom- Muslim Brotherhood govern- and legal consultancy offices and stores, laundries and barber shops of drugs into the country and off that two people were try- plice to load seven sacks full of ment since the relations faced others must shift to commercial on a priority basis since they are pulling out a gun on a public ing to smuggle 150kg of hashish drugs on a boat. The accomplice problems during the era of locations. The CMC, a public rep- basic services needed by the peo- security official. from an island. A patrol team of told the court that when he real- President Jamal Abdul Naser, resentative body, had told the trade ple on a daily basis. The govern- An accomplice of the con- the Border and Coastal Security ised that it was drug he refused Al Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, ministry that the neighbourhood ment, the CMC vice-chairman vict who said he was forced Guards was set up in close col- to touch the consignment. “When and due to the Iraqi invasion of stores must be allowed to continue said, should learn a lesson from by the latter to aid him in the laboration with the Anti-Drug I refused he (the prime convict) Kuwait and the assassination until alternative space is provided, its earlier decision of shifting all crime at gunpoint was sen- Enforcement Department and it forced me at gunpoint,” said the of Egyptian ambassador Eyhab as removing them from residential auto garages to the Industrial tenced to life imprisonment and swung into action to nab the cul- second convict. When the duo Al Sharif in Baghdad in 2005. areas would put people to extreme Area. “Now, even for a minor fined QR300,000. The Public prits. The main convict took his reached the coast around mid- Maliki is seeking to gain the inconvenience since these stores repair to our car we have to rush Prosecution charged the duo with accomplice to bring sacks of drugs night they were shocked to see trust of Muslim Brotherhood provide home delivery service and to the Industrial Area in traffic smuggling and possessing hash- that were buried in the seawater the public security personnel and win its support for his keep open at odd hours. jams and wait in long queues. We ish and opium in large quantities near an island. According to the patrolling the area. The main con- stance on Arab Spring, espe- “Also, removing these facili- hope the trade ministry heeds our for trafficking. They were also accomplice (the second convict), vict immediately dumped some of cially on Syria. ties from residential locali- request,” said Al Malki. accused of possessing weapons he agreed to help the main con- the consignment in the sea, and Continued on page 4 ties would lead to a sudden and THE PENINSULA and showing armed resistance vict because he was told that it was nabbed. THE PENINSULA Champions League clash Argentinian Ooredoo defends is new Pope new brand name VATICA N CITY: BY AZMAT HAROON team which looked into market Jorge Mario research, focus groups and exist- Bergoglio DOHA: Ooredoo said yesterday ing benchmarks before finally (pictured) it had to change its brand iden- coming up with a new brand of Argentina tity because it was becoming name and colour. was elected increasingly difficult to operate “Some people compared our in a surprise 17 brands in as many countries. choice of colour with Vodafone. choice to be The objective behind rebrand- That is ridiculous. Vodaphone the new leader ing was to bring together 93 does not operate in the sixteen of the trou- million customers — not just its countries where we do. We are bled Roman two million subscribers in Qatar, only together in Qatar,” Al Catholic according to a senior Ooredoo Sayed said. Many customers were Church yesterday, and said he official. initially divided on the new brand would take the name Francis I. “We had to expand because of identity of Qtel but that phase Pope Francis, 76, appeared on the limitation of the local mar- had passed, he said, adding that the central balcony of St Peter’s ket. It’s very difficult to manage 17 the Qatari identity was not com- Basilica just over an hour after brands in 17 different countries,” promised with the new name. white smoke poured from a chim- Waleed Al Sayed, Chief Operating “At the beginning, a majority of ney on the roof of the Sistine Officer of Ooredoo said. Al Sayed people were against the new brand Chapel to signal he had been cho- was addressing a press confer- name, which was primarily on the sen to lead the world’s 1.2 billion ence held at Ooredoo Tower on social networking sites. Today Roman Catholics. Bayern Munich’s Luiz Gustavo (right) is challenged by Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla during the Champions League the sidelines of the company’s the situation has flipped. A large The choice of Bergoglio was round of 16 second leg match in Munich, yesterday. Lacklustre Bayern Munich advanced to the Champions re-branding. majority of people understand announced by French cardinal League quarter-finals despite losing 2-0 to Arsenal to book their ticket on the away goals rule. See also page 26 The variety of brand names the objective behind unifying the Jean-Louis Tauran with the Latin made it difficult for Qtel to com- brands,” Al Sayed said, adding words “Annuntio vobis gaudium pete with international telecom that the brand alone doesn’t mean magnum. Habemus Papam” (“I companies. In order to be rated anything and it was the invest- announce to you a great joy. We among the top telecom companies ment in services that mattered. have a Pope” Maid hits student with bottle inside school in the world, a brand is evaluated “Today if you say AT&T, you know Francis becomes the 266th on basis of market capitalisation, it is from US. Similarly, Vodafone pontiff in the Church’s 2,000-year DOHA: A young student of a to hospital, where he was given against the school, since it was number of customers and prof- is from the UK, Orange from history at a time of great crisis private school suffered serious several stitches on the head.

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