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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Guintoli reigns supreme at Losail Sports | 28 Monday 3 November 2014 • 10 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6238 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Sudanese minister Plan to amend Key downtown laws to woo investment DOHA: A number of laws city areas to related to trade, commerce, industry and investment being overhauled with a view to improving business environ- ment in the country and attract- go commercial ing more foreign investment. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has Clearance for multi-storey buildings instructed the government to sim- plify laws to make doing business DOHA: Urban Planning week from June 1 to 5, 2014. and making investments easier, authorities have given clearance Al Nijada area located behind Undersecretary at the Ministry for development of multi-storey the Bank Street where Souq of Economy and Commerce, H E buildings in some key down- Nijada once existed will be per- Sultan bin Rashid Al Khater said town areas of the city. mitted to have buildings with on the sidelines of a conference The Gold Souq area, located ground plus five floors. here. opposite Grand Hamad Avenue This will also be a mixed-use He said radical changes were popularly known as the Bank area with the usage of the build- being made to at least two dozen Street, has been declared a purely ings being residential, commer- laws with the above objective in commercial district in new urban cial and administrative, local The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Sudanese Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed mind. Three laws have already development plans. Arabic daily Al Raya reported Hussein at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. They discussed bilateral relations and the latest developments in the been amended and enforced, while The residential buildings yesterday. region. the others are under review, he located along the internal streets The daily said that huge devel- said. THE PENINSULA in this area will be changed into opment was waiting to take place commercial. And multi-storey between east of Al Sadd and structures will be permitted in Fereej Al Naser and the projects the entire area. include road, sewage and other Population surges to 2.21m Suicide blast at The nearby Old Al Ghanem infrastructure works. area, on the other hand, is to be Meanwhile, designs for the sec- DOHA: More than 170,000 of people in the country as on growth worked out to even Pakistan-India a mixed-use locality, with build- ond phase of commercial streets people, most of them freshly- October 31 at 2,216,500. more—191,793—as the population ings of ground plus six floors to be are ready and being reviewed for recruited workers, have entered As is the practice of calculating figure as on October 31, 2013 was allowed here. implementation at 40 sites in dif- the country this year, taking the population, the total excluded 2,024,707. border kills 55 The usage of the buildings in ferent parts of the country. the population to an all-time nationals and expatriates with In a month since last LAHORE: A suicide bomber this locality will be commercial, The areas include Raudat Al high of 2.21 million. valid residency permits (RPs) September more than 29,000 peo- killed at least 55 people yester- residential and administrative. Hamam, Doha Jadeed, Thumama, The population continues to who were out of the country at ple have entered the country as day at the main Pakistan-India This, in other words, means Sailiya and Bani Hajir, among swell apparently unplanned, the time, that is, as on October 31. the population by September 30 border crossing, the blast tear- that shops and showrooms as others, within Doha. Several sites putting pressure on public serv- The country’s population, was 2,187,326, or more than 2.18 ing through crowds of spectators well as houses and offices will be are located out of the city. ices, housing and resources such according to the Ministry of million. leaving after the colourful daily allowed in the area. Plots on these commercial as food. Some three-fourths of the Development Planning and Qatar’s population has nearly ceremony to close the frontier. No wonder, then, that early streets will be of areas ranging population comprised men, their Statistics, was much less, at trebled in the last 10 years. In The explosion, which wounded last June real estate in Old Al from 1,500 sq metres to 4,000 sq number being over 1.65 million. slightly more than two million 2004, it was merely 744,000. Of more than 120, came at Wagah Ghanem was sold at a record metres. A commercial street is a Women totaled 561,780. (2,045,239 to be exact) as on this, roughly 496,300 were men border gate near the eastern rate of QR207,000 ($57,000) per unique concept. Such streets will In a month on average, some December 31, 2013. This means and 247,600 were women. Pakistani city of Lahore after square metre. support shops, showrooms and 17,000 people, including tourists that the population grew exactly This means that the male- the “flag-lowering” ceremony, a A 2,167 sq metre plot in the offices on both sides and each and businessmen, arrived in the by 171,261, or eight percent, in the female ratio being 2:1 was not so display of military pageantry that locality was sold for an incred- street can be dedicated to a par- country, figures suggest. Official past 10 months. much lop-sided as it is today. attracts thousands of spectators ible QR453.6m ($124.56m) in the ticular trade. THE PENINSULA statistics put the exact number The year-on-year population THE PENINSULA every day and is popular with for- eign tourists. The attack is a rare strike in Punjab, Pakistan’s richest and most populous province and pow- erbase of Prime Minister Nawaz Traffic village Sharif, which has been spared QU to open medical college next year the worst of the bloody wave of violence that has assailed the to promote DOHA: Qatar University (QU) “The decision was based on strengthening clinical practice, Other members are Dr Khalid Al country in recent years. It is the will set up a College of Medicine the result of a thorough feasibil- medical education and research Ali, Associate Vice President for deadliest attack to hit Pakistan safe driving next year, in a major initiative ity study conducted by a team in Qatar overall,” it added. Academic Affairs; Dr Mohamed since a suicide bombing at a to address the increasing need of high-ranking members from The expert team was assisted Ahmedna, QU College of Arts & church in the northwestern city DOHA: The Traffic for Qatar-trained physicians. Qatar University (QU), Hamad by an international advisory board Sciences (CAS) Associate Dean for of Peshawar killed 80 people in Department is planning to The College is being established Medical Corporation (HMC) and including current and former Research and Graduate Studies; September last year. set up a “traffic village-cum under directives from the Emir Qatar Leadership Center (QLC),” Deans of medical colleges at Dr Asmaa Al Thani, CAS Head, Sharif expressed “grief and sor- institute” to raise public H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad said a QU statement yesterday. Stanford University, Johns Hopkins Health Sciences Department; Prof row” over the attack in a state- awareness about traffic rules Al Thani. It will receive the first “Establishment of the College University, Heidelberg University, Edward Hillhouse, HMC Chief of ment issued by his office. His and safe driving. batch of students in Fall 2015, QU addresses the increasing need American University of Beirut, and Scientific, Faculty and Academic Indian counterpart Narendra The facility will have exclu- President Prof Sheikha Abdulla for Qatar-trained physicians, and University of Sharjah. Affairs; Dr Abdullatif Al Khal, Modi condemned the “shocking” sive halls equipped with Al Misnad said yesterday. supports the country’s growing The Steering Committee for HMC Deputy Chief of Medical and “dastardly” attack. Huge audio-visual aid to show traf- QU Board of Regents in its first healthcare sector and national the College of Medicine is chaired Education; Dr Hassan Al Thani crowds gather on both sides at fic signs and signals and edu- meeting for the new academic strategies in healthcare and edu- by Dr Abdulla Ali Al Thani, chair- HMC Head, Trauma and Vascular Wagah each sunset to see the cate the public about seatbelts year approved an action plan to cation. Working collaboratively man, Executive Management Surgery; and Dr Christiane Mück, display of military pageantry that and other safety measures, establish the facility. The meeting with key healthcare providers Committee, QU Board of Regents; QLC Project Consultant. accompanies the formal closing of Al Sharq reported, quoting was chaired by Sheikh Abdulla and educators, the College will Prof Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad, THE PENINSULA the border post. AFP Brig Mohammed Saad Al bin Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani. make invaluable contributions to QU President is the vice chair. Continued on page 6 See also page 13 Kharji, director of the Traffic Department. Land has already been allotted for the project and construction will begin soon, he said. The idea was inspired Arab League warns by the success of the Traffic Kindergarten set up by the Department at its headquar- ters in Madinat Khalifa, said of Jerusalem red line Al Kharji. The Traffic KG featuring CAIRO: The Arab League “Israel has reached a red line,” a mini traffic junction and warned yesterday that Israel Arab League deputy chief Ahmed entertainment events for has reached a “red line” after Ben Hilli said after an assembly families was intended to raise fresh clashes in Jerusalem, of the 22-member bloc’s del- traffic awareness among the urging international pressure egates.

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