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FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015 • 22 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6515 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 First passenger Private sector plane lands in Yemen’s Aden ADEN: A passenger plane workers seek flew into Aden yesterday, the first civilian aircraft to land in Yemen’s second city in more than four months, airport director Tarek Abdo said. holiday parity The Yemenia flight from Djibouti brought home 158 Yemenis who had fled fight- Separate govt sector law unjustified ing between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to exiled President DOHA: As more Qataris are Kubaisi, said there was the need Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. taking up jobs in the private sec- for the authorities to reduce the In mid-July the government tor, especially banks and finan- number of festival holidays in the backed by the Saudi-led coalition cial institutions, questions are government and ensure parity announced it had liberated Aden being raised over huge dispari- with the private sector. and later reopened the airport. ties regarding weekly offs and “I don’t quite understand why “The airport is now secure and festival holidays for government there should be such a disparity can receive civilian flights, namely and private sector employees. between the government and pri- those bringing home refugees or While there are 10 to 15 days vate sector. The holidays must be flying in humanitarian aid,” said of holidays for Eid Al Fitr and unified in the two sectors.” Abdo. But he stressed that for the Eid Al Adha each for public Al Kubaisi said this kind of time being only some planes will servants, private sector work- disparity actually discourages be able to land in Aden, and that ers are allowed only three to four Qataris from joining the private A Yemeni boy flashes the victory sign after arriving at the airport in Aden yesterday. there were no immediate plans to days’ of break. sector. If the holidays in the two resume regular flights. AFP Moreover, government employ- sectors are unified, that would ees work five days a week and help the job nationalisation effort mostly from 8am until 1pm, in the private sector, he said. whereas private sector workers “It is sheer injustice with pri- “slog” for six days a week and over vate sector workers,” said Ahmed eight hours a day, say citizens. Al Subei, yet another national. “Are we any less human or There is the need to strike the IS bomber kills 15 inside Saudi mosque don’t we work? Why should there right balance between the private be such discrimination between and government sectors. RIYADH: An Islamic State “The terrorist attack struck the special forces headquarters in “The attack is aimed at desta- the two sectors?” asks Sulaiman “If the holidays in the two sec- group suicide bomber yesterday worshippers during prayer,” the Abha and activated his explosives bilising the country and sowing Al Marri, a Qatari bank employee. tors are unified, it would help detonated an explosives-packed spokesman said, giving an initial vest, killing and wounding dozens. fear among citizens,” he said, “I work in a local bank in a very Qatarisation in private compa- vest in a mosque inside a Saudi toll of 10 policemen and three Al Hijaz Province vowed to quoted by the official Saudi Press challenging environment, work- nies,” said Al Subei. “It would also special forces headquarters workers killed and nine people carry out fresh strikes against agency. ing six days a week, while public end injustice.” killing 15 people. wounded. El Ikhbariya state tele- “tyrants in the Arabian penin- IS has said it was behind a July servants put in lesser number of Still another citizen who didn’t In the latest in a string of IS vision later said that two police- sula... in the coming days”. 16 car bomb that exploded at a hours, so why should we be dis- want to be identified told the daily attacks in the kingdom, the inte- men wounded in the “heinous” Another IS-affiliated group, security checkpoint near a prison criminated against? Why should that longer holidays in the state rior ministry said the bomber attack had died, bringing the “Najd Province”, had claimed in Riyadh, killing the driver and we be given only three days of Eid sector mean immense harm to the struck during noon prayers in death toll to 15. attacks on Shia mosques in May wounding two policemen. holiday while state employees are national economy as employees’ the city of Abha, in the southern IS affiliate “Al-Hijaz Province” that killed 25 people. An inte- Officials identified the driver as allowed longer break?”. productivity suffers. province of Asir near the border said in an online statement that rior ministry spokesman said a 19-year-old Saudi man and said Al Marri told local Arabic daily “This must end,” said the citi- with war-strewn Yemen. it was behind the attack, the lat- that “body parts found at the he had killed his uncle, a colonel, Al Arab in remarks published yes- zen, adding that two kinds of law Twelve of those killed were est — and deadliest — against scene” indicated the use of an before blowing himself up on a road terday: “It is literally fun and frol- regulating holidays and weekly members of a Special Weapons security forces in the kingdom in explosive vest. near Al-Hair prison, a high secu- icking for government employees. offs — one for private companies and Tactics (SWAT) unit, while recent weeks. The governor of Asir province, rity facility. IS said the attack was a Are we, engaged in the private and the other for the government the other three were workers The statement identified the Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin message to jihadists held at Al Hair sector, any less human?.” sector, were undesirable. at the compound, officials said. bomber as Abu Sinan Al Najdi Abdul Aziz, visited the mosque that they had not been forgotten. Another citizen, Khamees Al THE PENINSULA Seven other people were wounded. and said the jihadist infiltrated and the wounded in hospital. AFP Di Maria unveiled as PSG player Qatar Airways Immigration extends embargo 2 Taliban officials quit office to be KABUL: Two more senior Tayeb Agha, the head of the on transport of figures in the Taliban’s Qatar Qatar political office set up in relocated political office have resigned, 2013 to facilitate talks with Kabul, hunting trophies militants said yesterday, as the resigned on Monday in protest DOHA: The immigra- movement began efforts to rec- at Mansour’s appointment and tion office near the Old DOHA: Qatar Airways has oncile feuding factions amid an yesterday two more members Airport will be shifted to its extended its existing embargo increasingly bitter leadership followed suit. Former diplomat new location near Hamad on transporting hunting tro- struggle. Aziz Rehman and Mawlavi Nek International Airport (HIA) phies to encompass all species Splits have emerged at the top of Mohammad, who served as a on Sunday. identified by the Convention the Taliban following the appoint- deputy minister during Taliban The office will work from the on International Trade in ment of Mullah Akhtar Mansour as rule, both stepped down, accord- passport section in the admin- Endangered Species (CITES) replacement for Mullah Omar, the ing to a statement issued through istrative building of HIA which of Wild Fauna and Flora, a movement’s founding leader whose a recognised Twitter account used is near the cargo office of the press release by the carrier death was confirmed last week. by the political office. new airport, the Ministry of said yesterday. Some top leaders of the Islamist The insurgent group yesterday Interior has announced. The airline’s existing ban insurgency, including Omar’s son named Tayeb’s deputy Muhammad The department is called on carrying CITES I hunting and brother, have refused to pledge Abbas Stanakzai, who served in the visa and travel permits section trophies has been extended to allegiance to Mansour, saying the 1996-2001 Taliban government, as and issues and renews visit and include all species included in the process to select him was rushed the acting head of the Qatar office. tourist visas and exit permits. CITES I, II and III. and even biased. AFP THE PENINSULA “As one of the world’s leading Map on page 3 airlines, serving customers across six continents, Qatar Airways recognises its responsibility to society, our communities and the environment. “An absolute ban on all hunting Sisi vows to defeat terrorism trophies further extends our com- mitment to supporting the pro- ISMAILIA: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al history and leap to the future for the prosperity of tection of endangered species and Sisi said yesterday that Egypt would defeat terror- humanity.” the elimination of illegal trading ism, as he inaugurated the New Suez Canal project Among those at the ceremony were French of animal products,” said Qatar and the first ship passed through the waterway. President Francois Hollande, King Abdullah of Airways Group Chief Executive “Egypt during this year stood against the most Jordan and Bahrain’s H M King Hamad bin Isa Al Akbar Al Baker. dangerous terrorist ideology, that would burn the Khalifa. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, More than 35,000 species world if it could,” he said at a lavish ceremony Kuwait’s Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al (over 5,000 animals and 30,000 attended by world leaders.