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Page 01 Nov 01.Indd Home | 5 Business | 21 Sport | 32 34 teams Qatar offers QSL: Gutsy Al qualify for growth potential Rayyan rally World Robot for affordable to down Olympiad. hotels. Lekhwiya. SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2015 • 18 Muharram 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6601 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Kafala replaced by Emir condoles with Putin Russian plane crashes in Egypt’s Sinai, 224 dead DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Maksim Sokolov said the claim a half to just over three square Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yes- “cannot be considered accurate”. miles). job contract system terday sent a cable of condolences Germany’s Lufthansa and The aircraft’s black box had to Russian President Vladimir Air France said they would halt been retrieved and sent for analy- Putin, expressing condolences flights over Sinai until the reasons sis, Ismail said. Fine for keeping passports raised to QR25,000 and sympathy on the victims behind the crash became clear. The IS affiliate waging an of the Russian passenger plane The Airbus A321 with 214 Rus- insurgency in the Sinai claimed crash in the Egyptian town of sian and three Ukrainian passen- that “the soldiers of the caliphate Grievances committee to look into exit disputes El Arish. gers and seven crew, had taken off succeeded in bringing down a A Russian airliner carrying 224 from the Red Sea resort of Sharm Russian plane”. It said this was people crashed in a mountainous El Sheikh in south Sinai bound for in revenge for Russian air strikes area of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Saint Petersburg. against IS in Syria. yesterday, killing everyone on It lost contact with air traffic Three military experts said IS board, officials said. control 23 minutes later. in Sinai does not have surface-to- It was one of the deadliest inci- “Unfortunately, all passengers air missiles capable of hitting a dents involving Airbus aircraft of Kogalymavia flight 9268 Sharm plane at high altitude. over the past decade. El Sheikh-Saint Petersburg have But they could not exclude the The Islamic State (IS) group died. We issue condolences to possibility of a bomb on board or affiliate in Egypt claimed it family and friends,” the Russian a surface-to-air missile strike if downed the plane, without say- embassy in Cairo said. the aircraft had been descending ing how. The wreckage was found to make an emergency landing. Egyptian Prime Minister roughly 100 kilometres (60 miles) The Kremlin said President Sharif Ismail expressed doubt south of the North Sinai town of Vladimir Putin ordered rescue about the claim, saying experts El Arish, Egyptian officials said. teams dispatched to Egypt. confirmed that a plane cannot Debris and bodies were spread See also page 7 be downed at such an altitude, over an area of between six and and Russian Transport Minister eight square kilometres (two and AGENCIES Brigadier Mohammed Ahmed Al Atiq, Assistant Director General of the Department of Border, Passport and Expatriates Affairs, and Saleh Al Shawi, Director of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, addressing Emir’s international the press conference at the Ministry. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH Population rose to award for fight DOHA: The new law regulating Ministry of Interior through in case of an emergency, the against corruption entry, exit and residency of expa- Metrash 2 system and inform his worker can leave immediately 2.347m in September triates in Qatar has transformed employer three days in advance. after notifying the employer and the Kafala (sponsorship) system “No one will prevent an expa- by approval of the authorities DOHA: Qatar’s population hit 163,207 in total. The number of ST PETERSBURG: Qatar’s in the country into one control- triate worker from leaving the concerned. 2.347 million in September this marriages in September increased Attorney General H E Dr Ali led by employment contracts, a country and in case of any objec- Brig Al Atiq added that major year, with a 7.3pc increase from by 12.3pc compared to August, bin Fetais Al Marri, who is also senior official of the Ministry of tion (from the employer), both changes have been made in the 2.187 million recorded in Sep- with a total of 2,828 marriages UN Special Advocate for Stolen Interior has said. sides can approach the grievances residency law including change of tember last year, according to recorded from the beginning of Asset Recovery, has announced Addressing a press conference committee which will look into the sponsorship (Kafala) system latest data released by Ministry the year until September. the international award for Anti- on Thursday, Brigadier Moham- the issue,” he added. into one controlled by employ- of Development Planning and The number of divorces Corruption under the name of med Ahmed Al Atiq, Assistant This committee will comprise ment contract and accordingly Statistics. dropped by 43.3 percent in Sep- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Director General of the Depart- representatives from the Minis- the term sponsor (kafeel) has The monthly statistical report tember compared to August, with Hamad Al Thani. ment of Border, Passport and try of Interior, Ministry of Labour been replaced by employer. for September also shows that vis- a total of 1,117 divorces from the The Attorney General Expatriates Affairs at the minis- and Social Affairs and other bod- The relation between the itors to Qatar increased by 7.7pc beginning of the year until Sep- announced the award at the open- try said that the new law has done ies concerned. employer and employee will be in September this year compared tember. ing session of the eighth meeting away with exit permits that were The applicant (expatriate based on the terms of the employ- to the same period last year. Visi- The report also shows that of the General Assembly of the an integral part of the Kafala worker) will receive a SMS con- ment contract they sign on a tors from GCC countries made up social security beneficiaries in International Association of Anti- system. firming approval or rejection and voluntary basis. the highest number accounting September accounted for 12,382 Corruption, held in St Petersburg, “Exit permit will no more be in case of any dispute it should When the employment con- for 45.2pc of the total visitors. citizens, with an increase of 2.2 Russia, and chaired by Qatar. He required for travel since it was be raised to the grievance com- tract is approved by the Minis- Data shows a 2.6 pc decrease in percent compared to August, said the annual Award will be dis- part of the Kafala system, which mittee. If the committee does try of Labour and Social Affairs the number of vehicles registered when the number of beneficiar- tributed to three works: the first will become invalid with enforce- not take a decision within three it becomes valid and binding on in September (8,090) compared ies amounted to 12,112. for scientific research, the second ment of this law,” said Al Atiq. working days then the case be both parties. to August (8,309). However, traf- The report is released on a for media work, and the third for To leave the country an referred to the court, explained Continued on page 2 fic violations during the month monthly basis. innovation in the fight against employee needs to apply to the the official. increased by 3.2pc compared to corruption. departments concerned at the The law has stated that THE PENINSULA the previous month, reaching THE PENINSULA QNA Qatar Classic begins WPS to come into US-backed alliance force from tomorrow in anti-IS offensive DOHA: The new Wage Protec- The Ministry of Labour and tion System (WPS) will come Social Affairs had given six BEIRUT: A newly formed US- Fighting in Hasaka had begun into force from tomorrow mak- months grace period to compa- backed Syrian rebel alliance after midnight, a spokesman for ing it mandatory for employers nies and employers to prepare yesterday launched an offen- the alliance said. A group moni- to transfer employees’ salaries to for full implementation of WPS. sive against Islamic State in the toring the war reported fight- a bank or a financial institution. The Minister of Labour and northeast province of Hasaka, a ing and coalition air strikes in The new system is being imple- Social Affairs H E Abdullah Saleh day after the United States said the area. mented based on amendments in Mubarak Al Khulaifi recently said it would send special forces to A video posted earlier on the labour law No 14/2004. that no more grace period will be advise insurgents fighting the Youtube announced the offensive The ministerial decision on given to firms and the law will be jihadists. in southern Hasaka, and showed WPS says that employees’ sala- enforced from Nov 2. It was the first declared oper- several dozen men in fatigues ries must be transferred to their Continued on page 7 Abdullah Al Tamimi of Qatar returns the ball to Mohamed El Shorbagy ation by the Democratic Forces standing outdoors with yellow bank accounts by the seventh day of Egypt during the men’s first round match of the Qatar Classic at the of Syria, which joins together a flags and banners carrying the of every month. THE PENINSULA Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. US-backed Kurdish militia and name of the Democratic Forces El Shorbagy won 3-0. Report on page 31 several Syrian Arab rebel groups, of Syria in Arabic and Kurdish. since it announced its formation The campaign would “continue earlier this month.
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