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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Qatar GDP to FC Barcelona, grow 7.8pc El Jaish off to by 2016: QNB winning start Business | 17 Sport | 28 Monday 8 September 2014 • 13 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6182 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM meets Algerian minister Advisory Council Govt initiative nod to media law DOHA: The Advisory Council has cleared the draft media and human resources laws after discussions and the drafts have to motivate been referred back to the State Cabinet. The Cabinet has sent them for approval of higher-ups, a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Advisory Council, Dr Ahmed Mohamed school kids Obaidan, told Al Sharq yesterday. THE PENINSULA Ministry acts on parents’ complaints Qatar sends aid DOHA: Lack of motivation in such areas, added the minister. among students is a major chal- Dr Al Hammadi said the aca- for Iraqi people lenge facing education in Qatar demic year 2014-2015, which DOHA: Qatar has sent six and the Supreme Education started yesterday, “will be full of planeloads of humanitarian aid Council (SEC) has developed leading initiatives, outstanding to Arbil and Sulaymaniyah in several new initiatives in the new activities along with keenness to Iraq and to Amman in Jordan. academic year to address this strike a balance between mean- The aid includes 300 tonnes of issue, the Minister of Education ingful entertainment and useful tents, blankets and food, besides and Higher Education H E Dr education.” medicines for diabetes and car- Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali He said the new academic year The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met Algerian diovascular conditions, and Al Hammadi said yesterday. will bring many innovative solu- Minister of State and Minister of Interior and Local Communities, Tayeb Belaiz, in Doha yesterday. antibiotics. QNA In a speech delivered at the tions that “have been translated start of the new academic year, into 70 initiatives that will be the minister said the SEC had implemented successively during taken a serious view of this issue the year.” “that has been raised through He said priority has been several complaints on various given to harnessing all available Palestinians face boycott over Hamas wages occasions.” resources “to build the Qatari “Therefore, the SEC over the man as an educated man, com- RAMALLAH: The interna- be members of the Hamas police last months has developed differ- mitted to his religion, confident tional community has threat- Abbas threatens to break unity govt and security forces. ent activities to motivate students of his present and ambitious for ened to boycott the Palestinian Before the Hamas government and improve their achievements…. a bright future in which he will leadership if it pays the salaries RAMALLAH: Palestinian drew an angry reaction from stepped down in June, it had Students this year will notice a dif- contribute to the construction of of former Hamas employees President Mahmoud Abbas has the Islamist movement, which been unable to pay their wages ference starting from school buses his own modern state and to raise in Gaza, prime minister Rami threatened to break off a unity denounced his allegations as for months because of a biting to the lessons and the laboratories. its name high in its rightful place Hamdallah told AFP yesterday. agreement with Hamas if the “baseless.” But it raised fresh economic crisis. Through this new setting, they will among nations.” In an exclusive interview, Islamist movement does not questions over the future of a But Hamdallah said his govern- be able to develop their knowledge The Minister pointed out that Hamdallah said he had been allow the government to oper- fragile intra-Palestinian unity ment had been warned against and skills,” said the Minister. “optimism in this academic year warned he would face problems if ate properly in the Gaza Strip. deal aimed at ending years of channelling money to anyone He said the SEC is going to did not come from a vacuum, but he visited the Gaza Strip without Abbas’s accusation that rival administrations in West employed by Hamas, which develop various competitions to rather as an inevitable result of first sorting out the salaries issue. Hamas was effectively running a Bank and Gaza. AFP is blacklisted by the United develop scientific and artistic hundreds of thousands of hours The densely populated parallel administration in Gaza See also page 6 States and Europe as a terror skills among students. This has of hard work by working groups Palestinian coastal territory was organisation. been done in collaboration with of thousands of people who have the target of a 50-day Israeli main stumbling block to an intra- the government from working in “The government and the banks some entities inside and outside spent the past year reviewing, offensive in July and August Palestinian reconciliation deal. the Gaza Strip.” operating in the Palestinian ter- Qatar to make students innova- studying, planning, comparing, aimed at halting militant rocket “This unity government should Since signing the agreement ritories were warned that if they tive in areas like robot, photog- drafting, revising and monitoring and mortar fire into the Jewish control both the West Bank and in April, Hamas has demanded make these payments to former raphy, environment, reading and so that this come back to school state. Hamdallah, who heads the Gaza Strip but there are many that the new government take Hamas government employees in mathematics. Excellent students would be a blessed return herald- the Palestinian government of things blocking its work,” he said. responsibility for paying its Gaza then the government and will be able to participate in ing success for everyone.” national consensus which took “Putting Hamas employees on 45,000 employees, some 27,000 the people will be boycotted,” championships at the national, THE PENINSULA office on June 2, said the ques- the government payroll is the of whom are civil servants, he he said. regional and international levels Continued on page 5 tion of wages had become the main problem which is preventing said. The rest are understood to AFP Washed away in floods iPhone 5 recall Top Saudi cleric tells in Qatar soon DOHA: The Ministry of Muslims to fight IS Economy and Commerce, in col- laboration with Apple will soon RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s top United States seeks to build a announce a recall for iPhone 5 cleric has urged Muslims to con- broad-based international coa- sold from September 2012 to front the “oppressive” Islamic lition to fight the Islamic State, June 2013. The recall is being State jihadist group if it fights which has carved out a stronghold announced after the company Muslims after seizing swathes in large areas of Syria and Iraq. found a manufacturing defect of Iraq and Syria, media reports The United States last month in the battery. The defective said yesterday. launched air strikes against the phones have a shorter battery “This group is aggressive militant group in Iraq, in support life making users charge the and oppressive. It sheds blood,” of government forces and allied phone frequently. Al Eqtisadiah daily quoted tribesmen, as well as Kurdish The Ministry through the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz peshmerga fighters in the north. Consumer Protection Department Al Sheikh as saying. Last month, the desert king- (CPD) and Commercial Fraud “If they fight Muslims, then dom’s highest religious authority Combating Department will Muslims must fight them to rid branded Al Qaeda and IS jihadists announce in the local newspapers people and religion of their evil Islam’s “number one enemy”, and and the Ministry’s website about and harm,” he said in a response warned Muslim youths to steer the time and recall process. to a request from an Iraqi for a clear of “calls for jihad” issued on Buyers of these phones will be fatwa or edict on fighting IS. “perverted” grounds. required submit their iPhone’s “They have been killing ever IS jihadists, already well estab- serial number to see if they meet since they began their fight. Their lished in Syria, launched an offen- the requirements for the battery killing is filled with mutilations sive in Iraq on June 9 and rapidly replacement service, which will and hideousness that distort (the seized control of vast swathes of be free. THE PENINSULA People stand on a damaged bridge which was swept away by floods on the river Tawi on the outskirts of image of) Muslims,” Sheikh said. Sunni territory there. AFP Jammu in India yesterday. The death toll from flooding in Indian-administered Kashmir climbed to 175 yes- His remarks come as the See also page 6 UK pledges more terday. See also page 15 powers to Scotland LONDON: The British govern- ment yesterday pledged greater fiscal autonomy for Scotland, Fifa’s choice of Qatar for 2022 right, says Platini after a poll put the pro-inde- pendence camp ahead for the DOHA: World football body organising body told Germany’s as a member of Fifa’s executive Platini said. “With the develop- French government to vote for first time — just 11 days before Fifa made the right decision e-paper Welt am Sonntag that committee for Qatar in 2022, and ment of football in mind it was Qatar. Platini meanwhile said that the referendum on separation. in awarding the World Cups politicians were “making things repeated calls for the tournament the right decision.” his decision not to stand against British Finance Minister to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in too easy” with calls for a Russian to be moved to the cooler winter Platini said he was “completely Sepp Blatter for the Fifa presi- George Osborne said greater tax 2022, UEFA president Michel boycott in 2018 over the conflict months.