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Page 01 Aug 19.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 19 August 2013 12 Shawwal 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5796 Price: QR2 QDB unveils Hat-trick rail business for Bolt and opportunities Fraser-Pryce Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Justice Ministry Qatar support opens branch in Industrial Area DOHA: The Ministry of Justice for Egypt as is decentralising its various services, including attestation of documents and real estate registration, and has plans to open centres in different parts of the country to offer services. a whole: FM The aim is to reach out to peo- ple and businesses in the areas they are based and operate from, ‘We never back any political party’ and ease congestion at its main DOHA: Qatar clarified yes- Receiving Prince Saud, French office. terday that its support was for President Francois Hollande To begin with, the ministry Egypt as a whole and not for invoked the “duty” of countries has opened a branch office in the the Muslim Brotherhood or any that have “a relationship of trust Industrial Area that will do docu- other political party or group. and friendship (with Egypt) to ment attestations. The Foreign Minister, H E Dr end the violence” so that politi- The branch is housed at the Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, cal dialogue can begin. service centre of the Ministry of in France on a visit, told report- In Cairo, the interim cabinet Interior in the area. ers in Paris yesterday that Qatar discussed the bloody confronta- The Ministry of Justice said it began supporting Egypt right tion, with liberal Deputy Prime is inspired by the success of the after the revolution. Minister Ziad Bahaa El Din Interior Ministry in its service “And the support continues till advocating an end to a state of Supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi during a protest in Roxy Square in Cairo yesterday. Supporters decentralisation plans. date. There are misunderstand- emergency declared last week, marched across Egypt in defiance of a warning by the military that it will confront violence. “We will also have service ings about Qatar’s support. It is political participation for all par- centres in different parts of the for Egypt,” he said. “We never ties and guarantees of human country in collaboration with provide support to a political rights, including the right to free to take part in reconciliation.” the Interior Ministry,” said the party.” Dr Al Attiyah was address- assembly. Egyptian Foreign Minister Al Jazeera Mubasher under scrutiny Ministry of Justice. ing a news conference jointly with But his initiative seemed at Nabil Fahmy , meanwhile, insisted DOHA: Egyptian authorities said yesterday that they will review All types of documents that his French counterpart, Laurent odds with the stance of Prime the interim government had not the legality of Al Jazeera Mubasher (Al Jazeera Live) in Egypt. need attestation by the Ministry Fabius. Minister Hazem El Beblawi, abandoned the path to democ- The channel which reported the statement yesterday said it of Justice can now be attested at Saudi Arabia warned the who has suggested outlawing the racy amid a deadly crackdown on reflected a plan by the Egyptian government to ban Al Jazeera’s the Industrial Area branch office. West against putting pressure 85-year-old Brotherhood, which opponents. Fahmy told German activities in the context of the July 30 military take-over and the THE PENINSULA on Egypt’s military-backed gov- would force it underground. news weekly Der Spiegel that arrest of a number of Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt. Continued on page 4 ernment to halt a crackdown The meeting lasted about four military leaders were unlikely to The Egyptian Information Minister, Durriya Sharafaddin, said in on supporters of ousted Islamist hours, but ended with no immedi- extend a month-long nationwide the statement that the government decision came as the Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi. ate announcement of any major state of emergency imposed last people were disappointed by the way the channel was covering the Alwaleed sacks “We will not achieve anything decision. week. “I assure our friends that events in the country. through threats,” Saudi Foreign Ahmed Al Tayeb, leader of Al we are maintaining our road map Meanwhile, an Egyptian court has extended the remand of Al channel head over Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal, Azhar, Egypt’s supreme state to democracy.” Thirty-six Islamist Jazeera journalist Abdalla Al Shami for another 15 days. He was told reporters through an inter- Islamic institution, called for prisoners were killed yesterday taken into custody during a military crackdown on a sit-in at Rabia ‘Brotherhood links’ preter during a visit to Paris. respect for mosques and churches during an attempted jailbreak, Al Adabiya square in Cairo. DOHA: Saudi billionaire Prince France called on Saudi Arabia after reports of attacks blamed on bringing to almost 800 the toll in Al Jazeera Mubasher photographer Mohammed Badr was also Alwaleed bin Talal has given and Qatar to help find a solution the Brotherhood. five days of violence. AGENCIES arrested about one month ago. THE PENINSULA marching orders to the crisis in Egypt. He also called for “all Egyptians Picture on page 4 to a celebrated Kuwaiti Islamic scholar and motiva- tional speaker who headed his famous religious channel Abu Dhabi court extends Al Risalah, appar- Onion costlier as imports fall ently for his links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatari’s remand for a month DOHA: Prices of Indian onion, in Doha while some neighbour- official of a leading hypermarket Alwaleed said in a commu- a best-selling vegetable, have hood groceries were selling it at told this daily last evening. nication addressed to Dr Tariq DOHA: The detention of the Qatari who has been in custody in the shot up in the local market fol- QR5 or QR6 a kg. He said there is no panic buying Suwaidan (pictured) that the UAE since late last February was extended for a month yesterday. lowing a drastic fall in imports Indian onion is short in supply by customers until now. “People satellite channel was launched to Dr Mahmoud Al Jaidah was produced before a judge in Abu Dhabi from India, the major exporter at the central wholesale market will not stock onion or other veg- propagate moderation and not to and a UAE lawyer defending him was not allowed in to represent him, of onion to Qatar. causing a rise in retail prices. etables in huge quantities. In fact, be affiliated with any ideology or claimed a Qatari lawyer who has been following up on the case. Imports from India remain hit, Outlets directly importing onion many grocery owners are buying group — a veiled reference to the Abdullah Taher said on his twitter account late last night: “We don’t with the major onion producing from India have also hiked the from us in bulk to sell it out at Brotherhood. ask the UAE authorities to release Jaidah. All we want is to grant him states in the country experienc- prices in keeping with the daily higher prices.” He said Qatar is He said in the letter: “I am a fair trial”. ing a sharp decline in produce as price list issued by the Ministry looking for alternative sources highly disappointed by what you Taher, in earlier tweets, said there was a flicker of hope for Al a result of heavy monsoon show- of Business and Trade. to meet an expected shortage in have written in the social media, Jaidah’s release as investigators hadn’t been able to establish any links ers. Prices of onion in some parts “We were selling Indian onion supply in the weeks to come. “We which shows your inclinations between him and the banned UAE-based social organisation Dawat of the country have gone up as at QR3 a kg until Saturday but have stocks at least for one week and contradicts the goals of Al Al Islah. He said two UAE lawyers who were approached to defend Al high as 100 rupees per kg which the prices have gone up to QR4 and are looking for new sources Risalah. Jaidah refused to take up the case. is equivalent to about QR6. today. The impact of the price like Egypt.” India remains the top “Not only this, in a lecture in Taher was bitterly critical in his earlier tweets of the Qatari media Prices of Indian onion have hike in India is not yet felt in its exporter of vegetables to Qatar Yemen you announced that you saying they had turned a blind eye to Al Jaidah’s detention (since gone up by more than 50 per full force in Qatar because of the and onion forms the major por- are one of the leaders of the February 26). cent in the local market over the old stocks existing in the market. tion of its exports, according to Brotherhood.” Qatari newspapers haven’t written a word about him and no cor- past one week and a further hike “Prices will shoot up further data released by the ministry. The prince, as Chairman of Al respondent has visited Abu Dhabi to follow up on the case, he said. is expected very soon, when the with new shipments arriving A shortage in supply of Indian Risalah’s board of trustees, said Taking a dig at local newspapers for ignoring local issues, he said if stocks run out. in the market. There are also onion could lead to a hike in the he had repeatedly warned him you want to read about the goings-on extensively in Egypt, Libya and The commodity was sold at reports that India would impose prices of the commodity imported against political affiliation.
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