ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER QE market Bouchard to cap rises by face Kvitova 23.73pc in Q2 for title Business | 13 Sport | 24 Friday 4 July 2014 • 6 Ramadan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6116 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Kuwait protest Polygamy ‘could help resolve Crackdown social problems’ DOHA: It has been suggested during a recent Ramadan tent debate that Qatari men should be encouraged to take more on villas has than one wife to help reduce the number of unmarried women in their midst. Late marriage of Qatari women and some young women not get- ting married is a worsening social little impact problem in the community, a Qatari man said, taking part in the discussion yesterday. More time given to remove partitions Local Arabic daily Al Raya quoted Ahmed Hassan Al Malki DOHA: A campaign launched moved to independent villas. “We as saying Qatari men should be by authorities against parti- rented out some villas in Mamoura encouraged by the government to tioned villas last month is yet to recently to this segment,” a real marry more than once. He said have a noticeable impact on the estate executive told this daily it will have twin benefits — the real estate sector in the country yesterday. He said very few fami- problem of many women not find- in terms of prices and demand, lies had been forced to move out Supporters of Kuwaiti opposition leader and former parliament member Mussallam Al Barrak (portrait) dem- ing suitable grooms and remain- say industry sources. of their partitioned accommoda- onstrate in Kuwait City yesterday, after the public prosecutor ordered him to be held in custody for 10 days for ing unmarried would be solved, A shift en masse from parti- tions following the campaign and alleged slander and insults to the supreme judicial council. At a rally on June 10, Barrak claimed that former and Qatari population would tioned accommodations to inde- they might have relocated to other senior officials, including members of the ruling family, had stolen tens of billions of dollars from public funds increase. The government should pendent flats and apartments has villas or flats. and engaged in money laundering. Report on page 5 encourage polygamy by holding not happened, apparently because “Their number is too small to seminars and campaigns to raise authorities have not yet taken a have a significant impact on the awareness, he said. The debate tough stance in implementing the market,” he said. He, however, was organised in his majlis. law that bans illegal partitioning added that the real estate market Al Malki said Qatari working of buildings. is stagnant at present due to sum- women with children should not According to recent reports, mer and more relocations could be Fake zamzam bottles seized be made to work eight hours a day municipal inspectors have singled expected after September. and should be allowed time to raise out several partitioned villas for Several financially well-placed DOHA: Municipal inspectors ‘Ataratul Faiz’. their children. It is not advisable legal action, but sources indicate professionals staying in parti- have confiscated huge quantities The inspectors seized the entire to leave children at the mercy of landlords or agents concerned tioned villas could opt for inde- of contaminated bottled water stock of the water and sent samples housemaids, he said. “There is no have been given more time to cor- pendent facilities. from a shop in Gharafa. for tests at the Central Laboratory substitute to mother’s love, so her rect alterations. However, there “We have a few bookings for The water with dubious ori- of the Supreme Council of Health. supervision is necessary.” seems to be no leniency at least in flats to be occupied after the sum- gin was sold as holy zamzam They showed that the water was THE PENINSULA the case of portacabin houses built mer holidays,” said the executive. imported from Saudi Arabia. A not fit for human consumption, around many partitioned villas. Real estate experts, however, label in Arabic on the bottles read said the daily. The water was con- Five die on Mursi Landlords or middlemen who indicate that there is a shortage “Zamzam Maqri” claiming heal- taminated with Coliform bacte- have erected and sublet these of “affordable” flats in the market ing powers for the water. The word ria and high level of acidity and ouster anniversary facilities have volunteered to and an increase in demand could ‘Maqri’ implies that water was pre- the bottle lids were not properly remove them or have been forced jack up prices further. A two-bed pared with rendition of holy verses. sealed. CAIRO: Five people died in a by authorities to do so. apartment in the city now costs The shop had no permission to sell Authorities ordered an immedi- bomb blast and clashes between The make-shift structures have between QR5,500 and QR6,500 this water in the local market, a ate recall of the product and initi- security forces and protest- become the first target of the and even at this price, flats are local daily reported yesterday. ated legal action against the shop ers yesterday marking the first crackdown apparently because of not aplenty. Most apartment com- The fraud was detected by for offering an illegal product for anniversary of the army’s ouster serious concerns over safety. plexes in key areas of the city are inspectors from Al Rayyan sale that tried to exploit consum- of elected Islamist president Many middle-income expat full, rented out to companies or Municipality during a surprise ers’ religious sentiments. Mohamed Mursi. Armoured families and a higher number of individuals. “There was an over- raid. During interrogation, the The Ministry of Municipality personnel carriers blocked off single workers have been rely- supply of residential space in the shop manager claimed that the and Urban Planning has urged the Tahrir Square to prevent dem- ing on such facilities. “The only market but that is not the case water was imported from Saudi public to be cautious about such onstrators from converging on impact of the campaign we have now. Even vacant villas can hardly Arabia and showed some invoices products and report to it if they One of the bottles seized by civic the symbolic heart of the 2011 seen on the market until now is be found in the city,” said a source. issued by a commercial facility in come across any suspected items. inspectors in Gharafa. uprising that ousted Hosni that some single workers have THE PENINSULA the kingdom carrying the name THE PENINSULA Mubarak. See also page 5 Leg-up for Germany? Israel beefs up Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 forces near Gaza soldiers to border with Iraq as tensions rise DUBAI: Saudi-owned Al frontiers exposed. It aired a video JERUSALEM: Israel beefed up The German team Arabiya TV said the kingdom which, it said, showed some 2,500 its forces along its frontier with practises during had deployed 30,000 soldiers to Iraqi soldiers in the desert region the Gaza Strip and launched air a training session its border with Iraq yesterday east of the Iraqi city of Kerbala strikes against Hamas targets at the Maracana after Iraqi forces abandoned after pulling back from the bor- there yesterday in response to Stadium in Rio de the area, but Baghdad denied der, which is reinforced on the Palestinian cross-border rocket pulling forces back and said it Saudi side by a system of fences. Janeiro yesterday. attacks. remained in full control of its An officer in the video said the Germany will face Israel also faced a second day frontier. soldiers had been ordered to quit of violent Palestinian protests France in a World Saudi Arabia shares an 800km their posts without justification. in Jerusalem after the discov- Cup quarter-final desert border with Iraq, where However, the Iraqi prime ery of the body of a 16-year-old match today. Islamic State insurgents and minister’s military spokesman, Palestinian boy on Wednesday in Reports on pages other Sunni militant groups Lieutenant General Qassim Atta, a forest near the city. 20, 21 seized towns and cities in a light- told reporters in Baghdad: “This Abu Khudair’s body underwent ning advance last month. is false news aimed at affecting an autopsy yesterday and his bur- The Dubai-based TV said on the morale of our people and our ial is set for today. its website that Saudi troops had heroic fighters.” Police clashed with a few dozen fanned out into the border region He said the frontier, which runs stone-throwing Palestinians in after Iraqi government forces through largely empty desert, was Jerusalem’s Arab neighbourhood withdrew from their positions, “fully in the grip” of Iraqi border Shuafat. Six people were arrested. leaving the Saudi and Syrian troops. AGENCIES The military said Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had fired more than 40 projectiles into Israel yesterday. Israel launched air strikes against When ‘sound’ from Bahrain ended fast in Shamal at least three Hamas training facil- ities in Gaza. Fifteen people had DOHA: In the days before the oil discovery, and remembered how he and others observed reminisced. Catching fish was the main occu- been injured. REUTERS people in Al Shamal in the north used to Ramadan when he was eight. pation. Women would also leave home pretty See also page 8 break their fast during Ramadan after hear- He said people used to rely on oil lamps fired early to fetch drinking water from a spring in ing the sound (of a cannon?) coming from by kerosene at night to read the Holy Quran.