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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 31 January 2013 19 Rabial I 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5596 Price: QR2 Swiss set up QTF to host top investment event for Qatari agency in Qatar juniors Business | 22 Sport | 32 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Greek PM OPINION Donors pledge Emergency in Egypt again gyptian over $1.5bn EPresident Mohammed Mursi declared a 30-day state of emergency for Syria on Sunday in riot-hit Khalid Al Sayed areas of Suez, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Listen to cries of people, says Ban Port Said and Ismailiah. The announcement KUWAIT: Donor countries $1.5bn in pledges. About $1bn is came after violent protests have pledged more than $1.5bn earmarked for Syria’s neighbours swept the country, which left 46 to aid Syrians stricken by civil hosting refugees and $500m for people dead. Mursi had imposed war, UN Secretary-General humanitarian aid to Syrians dis- a night curfew in three other Ban Ki-moon said yesterday placed inside the country. cities earlier. after warning that the conflict The $500m would be channelled What is surprising is that the had wrought a catastrophic through UN partner agencies in decision to impose emergency humanitarian crisis. Syria and the entire aid pledge comes from a leader who had In a pointed message for Syria’s would cover the next six months, promised not to do so when he leader, Ban told a fund-raising Ban said. took power. conference that President Bashar But in the Syrian capital According to the new consti- Al Assad bore primary respon- Damascus, the thud of artillery The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at the Emiri tution of Egypt, the President sibility to stop his country’s suf- drowned out any optimism on Diwan yesterday. Talks dealt with bilateral relations and ways to develop them. must inform the parliament fering after nearly two years of the streets. Asked about the aid within seven days of declar- conflict that have cost an esti- promises, Damascenes were unin- ing an emergency. Article mated 60,000 lives. terested or despairing. (148) of the new Constitution “Every day Syrians face unre- “Where’s the money going to go Court rejects Villaggio fire accused plea reads: “The President shall lenting horrors,” Ban told the to? How does anyone know where proclaim, after informing the gathering in Kuwait, adding these it’s going? It all seems like talk,” government, a state of emer- included sexual violence and arbi- said Faten, a grandmother from a DOHA: A court hearing the children were in school. fire, testified in the court and gency and this proclamation trary killings. Sixty-five people middle-class family in the capital. Villaggio Mall fire case yes- The lawyer said in his plea that cited in detail what ignited the must be submitted to the par- were shot dead execution-style Another middle-class terday turned down the plea since the hearing in the case was blaze. liament in seven days. If the in Aleppo on Tuesday, opposition Damascene, a woman in her 70s of the defence lawyer of the now being held at short intervals, Also, for the first time yester- parliament is not in session, activists said. who asked not to be named, said husband-wife co-owners of the the couple be allowed not to be day, the lawyer for an insurance an emergency session must be “We cannot go on like this.... the money would not make it Gympanzee nursery gutted in present during the proceedings. company with which the mall convened for this purpose. In He should listen to the voices and to Syrians. “Tomorrow all that the blaze, that his clients be The court rejected the plea and might apparently have a policy, case of dissolution of the par- cries of so many people,” Ban said. money will get stolen. (The mid- exempted from attending court said the duo must attend the attended the proceedings. liament, it must be referred to “I appeal to all sides and par- dlemen) steal everything. If they proceedings. hearing when it happens. The court yesterday asked one the Advisory Council.” After the ticularly the Syrian government could steal people’s souls, they The plea was made on the The next hearing has been of the defence lawyers to produce ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the to stop the killing ... in the name would. I wouldn’t count on the ground that the couple, who are scheduled for February 7, a week his witnesses in the court during Egyptian parliament approved of humanity, stop the killing, stop money,” she said. Kuwait, Saudi first and second accused in the later. At yesterday’s hearing, only the next hearing. the extension of emergency law the violence.” Arabia and the United Arab case, were based abroad, with one witness, from the forensic The list of the witnesses is said for a period two years. Ban said the one-day confer- Emirates each promised $300m the husband being a diplomat. It laboratory, who had prepared a to be long. Continued on page 4 ence had exceeded the target of at the meeting. REUTERS was also pointed out that their report on the cause of the mall THE PENINSULA Black Bloc Man arrested for stealing cash from cars DOHA: Law-enforcement offi- cials have arrested an Asian allegedly involved in a series of car break-ins to steal cash. The arrested man, according to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Interior yesterday, used a novel modus operandi to commit the alleged crimes. He would keep an eye on people withdrawing cash from ATMs or bank branches and follow them until they left their cars parked. He would then break the window glass of the car and steal the cash. The police recovered QR150,000 from the suspect who was caught in the act by the Criminal A member of the Black Bloc group throws a stone at riot police dur- Investigation Department (CID) of ing clashes in Simon Bolivar Square, which leads to Tahrir Square, in the Ministry of Interior. Cairo, yesterday. See also page 12 Sleuths acted after several complaints from citizens and expatriates about the car break- ins. The CID formed a specialised team to arrest the culprit who Qatar plans law to regulate was trailed before being caught while trying to break into a car. During questioning, the man real estate valuation confessed to the crime. He has been transferred to the Capital DOHA: Qatar hopes to soon registration fee. “The state has Security Department for com- have a law to regulate the proc- been losing money. Such a prac- pleting legal formalities, the min- ess of real estate valuation that tice is making the state lose rev- istry’s press statement said. would likely help the state pre- enue,” H E Hussain bin Abdullah THE PENINSULA vent people from under-quoting Al Ghanem said. the market value of a property He added that his ministry Mali unrest survey and paying less registration fee had set up a committee late last while selling or buying land or year to prepare a draft law to DOHA: 83 percent respondents building. regulate the real estate valua- to an online survey by Al Sharq The Minister of Justice said tion process. on whether foreign military yesterday that since Qatar didn’t “Such legislation is very impor- intervention in Mali against have a legislation that regulates tant, particularly considering that Islamic insurgents was justi- property evaluation process and mega development projects are fied said they didn’t support the profession, the state had been being launched in the country and move. Barely 12 percent said losing revenue, since in many real estate transactions are on they did back the military inter- cases people provided incorrect the rise.” THE PENINSULA vention. THE PENINSULA valuation of a property to pay less Continued on page 4 THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME HMC holds public lecture on religion and psychiatry today Qtel launches BlackBerry Z10 DOHA: As part of its series of monthly “Open Day” lectures to raise awareness about mental health issues, the Psychiatry Department at The new version of smartphone to hit the firm’s retail shops soon Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will hold a public lecture today on the relationship between religion and psychiatry. DOHA: The highly-anticipated offer the ground-breaking new smartphone delivers a powerful enhancements in high density It will be held at 6pm at the department near The Center rounda- BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, BlackBerry Z10 smartphone new platform for BlackBerry pixel and screen technology, bout, and will be delivered by Dr Taher Shaltout, Senior Consultant of powered by BlackBerry 10 powered by BB10. We expect customers. both feature a microHDMI Psychiatry at HMC. (BB10) platform, will be avail- strong demand at our retail Combined with Qtel’s network outport for presentations and “There is a considerable overlap between religion and psychiatry, whether able in Qtel’s retail shops soon. shops for the BlackBerry Z10,” and service plans, BlackBerry advanced sensors such as NFC positive or negative. An example of a negative relationship between the two Customers will also be able to Mohammed Al Marri, Chief Z10 customers will be delighted (near field communications) to manifests in folk beliefs or superstitions which may impede or delay proper place orders online. Sales and Service Officer at Qtel, with a re-invented communica- support mobile payments and diagnosis and treatment, and make a patient’s recovery more difficult.

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