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Page 01 June 28.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 28 June 2013 19 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5744 Price: QR2 Qatar’s real Djokovic, GDP growth Serena put at 5.3pc advance Business | 13 Sport | 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir appoints Expats cash special adviser, chief of staff DOHA: The Emir H H in on rupee’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has issued an Emiri order appointing H E Hamad bin Khalifa Al Attiyah as the Special record fall Adviser to the Emir. The Emiri order annulled all provisions contravening its Indian rupee hits all-time low vs dollar rules. The Emiri order takes DOHA: The tumbling Indian more money reaching back effect from the date of issue rupee is leading to huge money home (India),” the Qatar-UAE and is to be published in the transfers by Qatar-based Exchange statement said. official gazette. Indian expatriates home, for- “The all-time low Indian rupee The Emir has issued eign exchange operators say. has spiked the remittance vol- Emiri decision No. 71 of 2013 The rupee touched an all-time ume to India, which is the larg- appointing Air Vice-Marshal low of 16.55 against the dollar- est receiver of remittances in the H E Ghanim bin Shaheen Al pegged Qatari riyal last morning, world,” the exchange house’s global Ghanim as Chief of Staff of improving later in day trading to operations vice-president, Promoth the Armed Forces. between 16.40 and 16.49. Manghat, was quoted as saying. The Emir also appointed News reports from India said The rupee will continue to be H E Sheikh Khalid bin the currency breached the bar- under pressure for some time to Khalifa bin Abdul Aziz Al rier of `60 a dollar yesterday to come and in the current scenario Thani as Director of the reach `60.72, due to heavy capi- it is too difficult to predict its Office of the Emir. QNA tal inflows and month-end dollar future, Manghat said. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Sudan President Omar Hassan Al Bashir at the Emiri Diwan, demand from importers. But Indians living abroad are yesterday. The Sudanese leader greeted the Emir on assuming power. See also page 2 The abrupt slide in the cur- choosing to look at the brighter rency continues as overseas funds side of the current economic situ- pull out of emerging markets, ation in their country, he added. said media reports. An Eastern As it is, India remains one of the Exchange official here said the top recipients of expatriate-routed rupee-riyal rate last morning was remittances from Qatar. `16.55, which improved slightly to Meanwhile, the currency Massive heroin haul at airport `16.49 by evening. situation as regards Sri Lanka, The Indian rupee has fallen Pakistan and Nepal is also not DOHA: In a huge drug haul, but nothing suspicious was 10.8 percent in 2013, becoming the encouraging. The Sri Lankan airport security person- found. worst performing currency of a rupee depreciated to 35.77 against nel seized 10 kilogrammes Unconvinced, the staff major Asian nation, according to the Qatari riyal yesterday from and 202 capsules of her- frisked the suspects and media reports. The basic problem 35.51 the previous day. oin at Doha International inspected their belongings, India faces is that its imports are An exchange official not wanting Airport from six Arab and and narcotic substances were growing more than its exports, his name in print said Sri Lanka African nationals, accord- found. so the current account deficit is had been waiting for a loan from ing to a statement released On interrogation, the pas- increasing. China and once the loan materi- yesterday by the Ministry of sengers confessed to carrying A Qatar-UAE Exchange state- alises, the rupee would appreciate. Interior. narcotic substances. ment yesterday said the Indian The Nepalese rupee improved Airport Security Legal action has been ini- currency’s slide was certainly not marginally to 26.38 against Department staff became sus- tiated and the suspects have good news for its economy but the riyal yesterday, while the picious about six passengers been referred to the Drug had a silver lining for millions of Pakistani rupee was quoted at who had arrived by different Enforcement Administration Indians living overseas. 27.12 against the riyal. flights. for further investigation. Heroin capsules seized from six passengers. “A tumbling rupee means THE PENINSULA Their luggage was searched, THE PENINSULA Egypt braces for US sees more Taliban attacks despite peace efforts more protests NEW DELHI: The United here. “The Taliban will want to opening of the Taliban office” will start... For us we are going that are aligned with Pakistan. CAIRO: Egypt faces a show- States said yesterday that it continue to put pressure on, to in Qatar. “They questioned me into it with open eyes,” he added. India and Pakistan are down in the streets after expected the Taliban to con- make it look like the United States closely on what the prospects He said that while Afghan locked in a fight for influence in President Mohammed Mursi tinue to mount attacks in is leaving as a result of that pres- were for peace, on what the exact President Hamid Karzai’s concerns Afghanistan, but Dobbins saw the failed, in an address to the Afghanistan even as the rebels sure rather than a result of its stand was... but I did not sense over the Taliban office in Qatar had prospect of improved relations nation, to satisfy the demands hold peace talks from their new success,” he added. Dobbins, who they were opposed to it or the been addressed and he has agreed between the neighbours which of opponents who want to force office in Qatar. is on the last stop of a tour through talks was something one should to participate in the talks, they have fought three wars since him from office. “Frankly I anticipate that South Asia, said he had briefed his stay away from.” are “still waiting to hear from the independence. The United States Days of brawling between his Taliban will continue to try Indian counterparts about the Dobbins said the US is not sure Taliban” on when to hold the talks. has pressed for a political solution Islamist supporters and their to negotiate from a position uncertain peace process, which if the talks with the Taliban will India, which has spent to end the violence in Afghanistan rivals have already left several of strength,” US special envoy has caused concern in New Delhi. take off at all. “Nobody knows more than $2.0bn of aid in ahead of the US-led Nato combat dead and scores injured and the to Afghanistan and Pakistan, He said that the Indian side how it will progress, or we can say Afghanistan, fears any return mission finishing in 2014. camps now plan mass rallies, rais- James Dobbins, told reporters had “lots of questions on the with certainty that the process of the influence of the Taliban, AGENCIES ing the risk of bigger clashes that the army warns could prompt it to take command again. Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood and their allies will gather in It’s Spain vs Brazil Cairo today, as will some opposi- tion groups. On Sunday, the oppo- sition hopes millions will heed the FORTALEZA, BRAZIL: Spain will play Brazil in the final of call, a year to the day since Mursi the Confederations Cup after beating Italy 7-6 on penalties in the became Egypt’s first freely elected second semi-final in Fortaleza yesterday. leader. All of the first 10 players to step up to the spot scored, leaving it The army, which helped pro- down to sudden death, and it was Leonardo Bonucci who was first to testers topple Hosni Mubarak in miss at 6-6 all before substitute Jesus Navas dispatched the winning 2011 and is on alert across the kick beyond the reach of Gianluigi Buffon. country guarding key locations, The final, against the tournament hosts, will be in Rio de Janeiro says it will act if politicians can- on Sunday. Brazil moved into the final of the Confederations Cup on not reach consensus. The United Wednesday following a tense and dramatic 2-1 victory over Uruguay. States, which continues to fund Following another day of protests in Belo Horizonte, where anti- the military as it did under government protesters clashed with police, the nation’s football Mubarak, has urged Egypt’s lead- players gave its people some brief respite. ers to pull together. A late header from Paulinho was enough to push the samba stars Mursi described his opponents over the line in a game where it was given a huge scare by its South as “enemies” and “saboteurs” American rival. loyal to the ousted dictator, whose Diego Forlan squandered a glorious opportunity from the penalty “corruption” had thwarted him spot in the first half before Fred fired Brazil ahead. and driven the economy into cri- Spain’s defender Sergio Ramos (left) and midfielder Santi Cazorla celebrate after defeating Italy in the penalty Edinson Cavani leveled after the break from close-range, but sis, though he conceded he had shoot-out at the end of the extra time of their FIFA Confederations Cup semi-final football match, at the Castelao Paulinho’s late effort sealed his country’s place in the final. made some mistakes and prom- Stadium in Fortaleza in Brazil, yesterday. AGENCIES ised reforms.
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