ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 5 January 2014 4 Rabial I 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5935 Price: QR2 MPHC to give 4 Qatar trounce months’ dividend Kuwait 3-0 to to subscribers reach WAFF final Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Cairo summons Nadal wins Qatar Open Qatar envoy over criticism Doha slams crackdown on Brotherhood CAIRO: Egypt’s Foreign Moqadam Al Boenain after the Ministry summoned Qatar’s envoy was called in yesterday. ambassador yesterday to com- On Friday, 17 people were plain about alleged interfer- shot dead as supporters of the ence in its internal affairs after Brotherhood clashed with police Doha criticised Cairo’s crack- across Egypt, defying a widening down on the Islamist Muslim state crackdown on the move- Brotherhood. ment that ruled the country until The formerly close Qatari- six months ago. Egyptian relationship has soured Islamists opposed to the army’s since the Egyptian army ousted overthrow of Mursi have been Islamist President Mohamed holding daily demonstrations for Mursi, who had been firmly sup- months. ported by Doha, last July following Last week, Egypt’s general mass protests against his one- prosecutor detained several year rule. journalists for 15 days for broad- Earlier, a Qatari Foreign casting graphics on Al Jazeera, Ministry statement said: “The alleging that they damaged Rafael Nadal of Spain (second right), winner of the Qatar Open, with Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah (second left), Qatar decision to designate popular Egypt’s reputation. Tennis Federation President, Nasser Al Khelaifi, and Gael Monfils of France, the runner-up, at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex political movements as terror- In an interview with Egypt’s in Doha yesterday. (SALIM MATRAMKOT) ist organisations, and labelling newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm in See also page 27 peaceful demonstrations as ter- November, Foreign Minister Nabil rorism, did not succeed in stop- Fahmi said Al Jazeera was one of ping the peaceful protests. the reasons for worsening ties “It was only a prelude to a between the two states. shoot-to-kill policy on demonstra- Egypt expelled the Turkish Fallujah in Iraq tors,” the statement published by ambassador in November after it New Nepal envoy unlikely soon QNA said. It said that “inclusive accused Ankara of backing organ- falls to Al Qaeda BY FAZEENA SALEEM dialogue” between all sides was isations bent on undermining the in charge,” Kant Poudel told this She challenged her recall by the only solution to Egypt’s crisis. country — an apparent reference newspaper yesterday. filing a petition in her country’s FALLUJAH, IRAQ: Iraq has Cairo launched a wide crack- to the Brotherhood. DOHA: Nepal is unlikely to “So many diplomats had been supreme court claiming the deci- lost Fallujah to Al Qaeda-linked down against Mursi’s Muslim A conservative estimate puts appoint a new ambassador to recalled from several places for sion was unlawful as she was fighters, a senior security offi- Brotherhood group and labelled it the death toll since Mursi’s fall Qatar in the near future, since different reasons. They leave and appointed by Nepal’s President cial said yesterday, putting a terrorist group last week. Qatar at well over 1,500 people, mainly a case filed by the former envoy, a new one is appointed. This is and was issued following due militants back in control of the said yesterday that the decision to Brotherhood supporters. About the controversial Maya Kumari a very rare and unique case of a legal procedures. She accused city in Anbar province where name the Brotherhood a terrorist 400 police and soldiers have Sharma in her country’s high- diplomat going to court against the Nepal government of not giv- American forces repeatedly organisation was “a prelude to a been killed in bombings and est court against her recall the recall,” he added. ing her a chance to defend the battled insurgents. shoot-to-kill policy” against dem- shootings. from Doha has not concluded, a Ganesh Prasad Dhakal is func- charges levelled against her. And fighting in Anbar killed onstrators who have been stag- Yesterday, a bomb exploded senior diplomat said yesterday. tioning as the temporary head of Sharma had got a stay order 65 people — eight soldiers, two ing frequent protests to call for under an armoured vehicle near Though the Nepalese govern- the Nepalese mission in Doha from the supreme court in government-allied tribesmen and Mursi’s reinstatement. the Egyptian North Sinai town of ment is looking into the possibility after Sharma was recalled in October last year on her recall 55 militants from the Al Qaeda- “Egypt reiterates that it will Areesh, killing one army soldier of appointing a new ambassador October last year. from Qatar. linked Islamic State of Iraq and not allow any external party to and wounding at least two others, to Qatar, the legal process would Less than halfway into her ten- However she went back to the Levant (ISIL), security offi- interfere in its internal affairs security sources told Reuters. take several months, according ure as ambassador, Sharma was Nepal later in October. The court cials said. It is the worst violence under any name or justification,” Armed men planted the explo- to Harihar Kant Poudel, Second recalled by the Nepalese govern- also directed the government not to hit Anbar province in years, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokes- sive device on the road used by Secretary at Nepal Embassy ment which was dissatisfied with to appoint a new ambassador and the first time militants have man Badr Abdelatty said in a army vehicles in Egypt’s cam- in Qatar. her performance. until it issued a judgement. exercised such open control in statement. paign against militant Islamists “We can’t give an exact time Sharma waded into a contro- Sharma told this daily earlier major cities since the height of Any country that tried to inter- in Sinai, the sources said. It went for the appointment of a new versy after being quoted by some that she was not sure of getting the bloody insurgency after the fere would have “the responsi- off when the armoured vehicle ambassador, since the case has western media outlets criticising justice because the “Nepalese gov- 2003 US-led invasion. “Fallujah is bility for the consequences,” he drove over it. to be heard and examined and a Qatar on labour issues in July ernment has so much influence under the control of ISIL,” said a added of the message given to AGENCIES judgment given by the court. Until 2013. She denied the allegations over the country’s judiciary.” senior security official. AFP Qatar’s ambassador to Cairo, Saif See also page 6 then the chargé d’affaires will be and said that she was misquoted. THE PENINSULA See also page 6 Flood, snow Peace talks making warning in UK progress, says Kerry LONDON: The UK Environment Agency has said JERUSALEM: US Secretary and presented new opportunities there were four severe flood of State John Kerry is to fly to for others,” he said. warnings in place, three on the Jordan and Saudi Arabia today “We are beginning to flesh out river Severn and one on the seeking backing for his plans for the toughest hurdles yet to be Lower Stour at Iford in Kent. Middle East peace, after insist- overcome.” There were a further 97 flood ing he has made progress. Jordan is only one of two Arab warnings and 244 flood alerts in After a second meeting with countries to have signed a peace place. The agency has removed Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas treaty with Israel, and King 175 warnings or alerts in the in the West Bank, Kerry swept Abdullah II holds a special posi- past 24 hours. back to Jerusalem for his third tion because the 1994 accord rec- The Met Office has issued yel- discussions with Israeli Prime ognises his country’s “historic” low warnings of rain in the south Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in role in caring for Muslim holy of England and snow in the north three days. sites in east Jerusalem. of England and southern parts of “We’re not there yet, but we Custodian of the Two Holy Scotland. Up to 3cm of rain could are making progress,” Kerry said Mosques King Abdullah bin fall in just six hours, and there yesterday, adding everyone was Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia also are more warnings of flooding and “working with great intensity” to plays a key role, as the kingdom travel disruption. try to reach a peace deal. was the author of an Arab League Residents in Chiswell and Speaking to reporters in peace initiative. Portland in Weymouth, Dorset, Abbas’s Ramallah headquarters, Direct Israeli-Palestinian were evacuated ahead of high tide Kerry announced he would also negotiations had been frozen on Friday night, while around travel to Jordan, which borders for almost three years, but after 100 people living in Aberystwyth, the West Bank, and to Saudi intense diplomacy by Kerry the Dyfed, were advised to move to Arabia today for talks with the two sides agreed to resume talks higher ground, with many taking kings of both nations. in July. But his 10th trip to the shelter in rest centres. “I’m confident that the talks region has been clouded by bit- The ferocious weather has left we’ve had in the past two days ter recriminations between Israeli Big waves hit a breakwater at San Juan de Nieva coast near Aviles, Asturias, northern Spain, yesterday.