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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Relatives of New airport opening Qatari held in postponed DOHA: The opening of Hamad International Airport (HIA), which was UAE in despair scheduled for 12.20am today, has been cancelled. The last- minute cancellation of the much-publicised event fol- A month on, no contact with family lowed a directive from the Civil Defence Department. DOHA: The family of a supposed to be left the airport, In a late-night announce- 52-year-old Qatari medical doc- we were concerned…We called the ment Abdulaziz Al Noaimi, the tor who was arrested at Dubai office of Qatar Airways to know Chairman of the New Doha airport on his way to Doha from the reason. They told us that my International Airport (NDIA) Bangkok late last February is father did not board the flight Steering Committee said yes- in deep agony as he remains from Dubai.” terday they were forced to put untraced even a month after his “We tried to call him on his off the April 1 inauguration as detention. mobile phone but that was the airport did not meet the The family’s agony is deepen- switched off. When we called the newly introduced safety and ing as it has no clue as to why Qatari Consulate in Dubai they security requirements man- its lone bread-winner was taken informed us that our father had dated by the Civil Defence into custody.