ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 25 October 2012 9 Dhul-Hijja 1433 - Volume 17 Number 5498 Price: QR2 QE index PSG stroll drops 0.23pc to victory; this week Man City lose Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir to receive Check-ups for Eid well-wishers DOHA: The Emiri Diwan announced yesterday that the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin new workers in Khalifa Al Thani will receive the Eid Al Adha well-wish- ers at Al Wajbah Palace in the morning of the first day as fol- lows: Immediately after the Eid Industrial Area prayer and till 6:30am, the Emir will receive their excellencies the Sheikhs, the Ministers, the Advisory Council Speaker, the Less burden on Medical Commission undersecretaries, the Advisory Council members and the citi- DOHA: The health centre plans are afoot to shift it into new zens. From 6:30am to 6:45am, in the New Industrial Area premises after three years. the Emir will receive their excel- (NIA) plans to begin con- Although the capacity of the lencies the heads of the diplo- ducting mandatory health health centre is 500 patients a matic corps accredited to Qatar. checks on newly-arriving day, it handles almost double the From 6:45am to 7am, the Emir foreign workers from early number of workers who come for will receive the Army and police next year — a job the Medical treatment for various ailments. officers and the directors of state Commission (MC) carries out Initially, about 700 workers departments and national insti- at present. used to turn up for treatment tutions. The Emir will also receive Newly-arriving workers must but as days passed by the number after Asr (afternoon) prayer and undergo checks for diseases like swelled and went up to 950, said The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad till 3:30pm their excellencies the Aids, TB and Hepatitis in order Abdulmoaty. bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani with Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi at the Egyptian presidency headquarters sheikhs and citizens. QNA to be eligible to get a residency The health centre operates in Cairo yesterday. During the meeting, the leaders reviewed bilateral relations and ways to boost them. permit. The Medical Commission from 7am until 9pm and its conducts such tests now. emergency section is open round- Eid prayers The section of mandatory the-clock. However, very critical Egypt in talks to buy Qatari LNG health checks would be annexed emergency cases are instantly to the health centre and would be transferred to the emergency unit at 5.55am handle about 400 workers a day, of Hamad Medical Corporation. DOHA: Egypt is negotiating meeting of the Emir H H Sheikh related to plots of land owned by DOHA: Qatar is all set to cele- thus taking some burden off the Depending on the severity of a with Qatar to import liquefied Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with Qataris in Egypt also came up for brate Eid Al Adha tomorrow. Eid Medical Commission. case, helicopter ambulances are natural gas (LNG) to help meet Egyptian President Mohammed discussion between the Emir and prayers will take place at vari- These will be the workers who also deployed to transfer emer- its growing requirements for Mursi. President Mursi. ous mosques and special prayer would be coming to be engaged gency cases to HMC’s emergency the clean fuel, especially to fire Qandeel told reporters that Decisions on some key issues grounds across the country at in projects located in the New unit, said Abdulmoaty. its power plants. And Qatar and issues like the situation in Syria, were taken in the meeting and 5.55am, the Ministry of Awqaf Industrial Area, said Dr Dawood Most emergency cases relate to Egypt have agreed to further Palestine and the Arab world also they included an agreement to and Islamic Affairs has said. The Abdulmoaty, the director of the brain haemorrhage, heart attack economic ties and accelerate came up for discussions between remove all obstacles in the way Ministry has arranged a total of health centre which is dedicated and accidents. The doctor said the process of investments. the two leaders, aside from issues of routing Qatari investments 277 mosques and prayer grounds to serving low-income foreign that sometimes workers come to Studies are under way to launch of mutual concern. into Egypt. It was also decided in different parts of the country workforce. The proposed move is the health centre for no rhyme the ambitious tourism project on The Egyptian premier described at the meeting to start working for the early morning prayers. Of part of the plan of the Supreme or reason as they might be try- the Mediterranean coast in East the visit of the Emir to Gaza as on the Qatari tourism develop- these 21 places will have special Council of Health to further ing to shirk work. The health Port Said in which Qataris are historic and said that as the Emir ment project in East Port Said, arrangements for women. All the decentralise the work of the centre has 27 doctors, 34 nurses, investing a staggering $18bn. already noted in his speech in Gaza the Egyptian premier disclosed. ministries, schools and govern- Medical Commission. 21 medical technicians and the This was disclosed yesterday on Tuesday, post-revolution Egypt “We are conducting the neces- ment departments will remain The health centre of the New emergency section has six medi- by Egyptian Prime Minister Dr played a role in facilitating his visit sary studies to launch the above closed today, with the beginning Industrial Area has been oper- cal technicians. Hisham Qandeel at a news con- to the Palestinian territory. projects,” the premier said. of official Eid holidays. ating for the past two years and THE PENINSULA ference in Cairo held following the According to Qandeel, issues THE PENINSULA See also page 4 Sudan accuses Israel of air raid Nearly 3 million flood Mina Syria undecided on as Haj begins ceasefire proposal MAKKAH: Hunderds of thou- sands of faithful left the holy city BEIRUT/CAIRO: Syria said commanders. “The final position of Makkah at dawn and headed yesterday that its military on this issue will be announced for the sites of Mina, Muzdalifah command was still studying a tomorrow,” a ministry state- and Mount Arafat as the Haj pil- proposal for a holiday cease- ment said. Brahimi later told the grimage started in earnest. fire with rebels - contradicting United Nations Security Council Attired in white, the believers, international mediator Lakhdar that Assad himself accepted the in buses, cars and on foot moved Brahimi’s announcement that truce. chanting “Labbaik Allahumma Damascus had agreed to a truce. The holiday starts today and Labbaik” (“Here I am, O Allah, The statement threw Brahimi’s lasts three or four days. Brahimi here I am”). Nearly 2 million pil- efforts to arrange a pause in did not specify the precise time grims have come from abroad for the bloodshed in Syria into period for a truce. Nor did the what is described as the largest even more confusion, as divided initiative include plans for inter- gathering of faithful in the world. rebel groups fighting to topple national observers, and rebel They will be joined by nearly one President Bashar Al Assad gave sources had earlier told Reuters million from within Saudi Arabia. The Yarmouk military factory in Khartoum in flames. Israeli missiles struck a military factory and killed two mixed messages. The prominent there was little point if it could Pilgrims from nearly 150 coun- people in the Sudanese capital. Evidence pointing to Israel was found among remnants of the explosives, Farooq Brigade, which operates not be monitored or enforced. tries are taking part in this year’s Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman said. “We reserve the right to react at a place and time out of the battered city of Homs, Assad’s forces and rebels are Haj. Among the countries that said it would cease fire. now locked in a battle with huge we choose,” he said. See also page 6 have sent the largest contingents The Islamist militant Al Nusra potential ramifications in the of pilgrims are India, Egypt, Front rejected the truce, saying northwest. Syrian warplanes Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey. it is not a group “who accepts to carried out bombing raids yes- In the arid valley of Mina, play such dirty games”. A pre- terday on the strategic northern pilgrims will spend the night in Four militants killed; Libyan fighters seize Lebanon president vious ceasefire arrangement in town of Maarat al-Numan and government provided tents and April collapsed within days, with nearby villages while rebels sur- buildings. Many pilgrims also 70 rockets hit Israel control of Bani Walid for all-party talks both sides accusing the other of rounded an army base to its east, headed to Mount Arafat. breaking it. an activist monitor said. Five peo- Today, the Arafat Day, is the GAZA CITY: Tensions soared BANI WALID: Libyan pro- BEIRUT: Lebanese President Brahimi, the joint UN-Arab ple from one family, including a climax of the Haj, when pilgrims around Gaza yesterday after government forces yesterday Michel Sleiman is pressing for League special envoy, had criss- child and a woman, were killed ascend Mount Arafat, some 10km Israeli air raids killed four mili- seized control of Bani Walid, one all-party talks on forming a new crossed the Middle East to push in the air strikes, according to southeast of Mina, to spend the tants and Palestinian armed of the last bastions of Muammar government amid US pressure the warring factions and their Rami Abdelrahman, head of the day in prayer.