BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Fossati picks squad, holds fi rst INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2-10 COMMENT 26, 27 $1bn Qatar-Indonesia training REGION 10 BUSINESS 1-4, 9-12 18,190.00 10,435.17 44.48 ARAB WORLD 10, 11 CLASSIFIED 5-9 joint investment fund -109.00 +22.67 -1.84 INTERNATIONAL 12-25 SPORTS SECTION 1-12 session -0.60% +0.22% -3.97% reaches ‘fi nal stages’ Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10223 September 26, 2016 Dhul-Hijja 24, 1437 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Qatar Rail celebrates Doha Metro Project milestone In brief Qatar’s QATAR | Motoring 428 cases of vehicles overtaking from right power The Traff ic Department reported 428 cases of vehicles overtaking from the right, which constitutes a violation of traff ic laws, on Saturday, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) tweeted yesterday. The MoI also informed that there were 309 violations pertaining to motorists not using seatbelts, 52 for parking in slots capacity designated for persons with disabilities and another 52 for using mobile phones while driving. The ministry also stressed, through a series of tweets, the need for motorists to observe safe driving methods by complying with traff ic regulations on key aspects such as lane discipline, speed limit, wearing to surge seatbelts and using mobile devices, among others. HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday attended Qatar Rail’s Qatar’s power capacity is expected REGION | Unrest celebration marking the completion of the tunnel digging works for the Doha Metro Project on the south side of the Red Line to rise from around 8,800MW now Yemen planning in Hamad International Airport (HIA) Station. The tunnelling works started in July 2014 and 111km were covered yesterday by to 13,000MW by 2018 UN complaint the tunnel boring machine (TBM). Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Turki al-Subaie, managing director and chairman of the executive committee of Qatar Rail, said that the completion of the drilling works was an important milestone in Doha Metro project’s By Pratap John Yemen plans to complain to the UN progress. Page 2 Chief Business Reporter Security Council over Iran’s “weapon transfers” to Houthi allies fighting the internationally-recognised Yemeni atar’s power capacity is expect- government, the foreign minister ed to reach 13,000MW by 2018 said yesterday. In an interview with Qand will cater to the country’s Reuters, Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi also ever-growing development needs, said said he hoped a 72-hour humanitarian Russia under fi re at UN as Fahad al-Mohannadi, managing direc- ceasefire would take eff ect early next tor and general manager of Qatar Elec- week. “There are new weapons coming tricity and Water Company. from Iran,” Mekhlafi said in New York The existing capacity is around where he was attending the annual UN 8,800MW, al-Mohannadi, also the gathering of world leaders. Mekhlafi air strikes pound Aleppo chairman of Umm Al Houl Power said his government was in the process Company told Gulf Times last night. of filing a complaint to the Security “Our future projects will take us to Council, with evidence including AFP 13,000MW, which is part of our readi- documents and pictures. United Nations ness for the development of 2022 (FIFA World Cup)”, he said on the sidelines of EUROPE | Health an event held to mark the arrival of Sie- ritain, France and the United mens’ 1000th gas turbine to the Umm 43 years in wheelchair States lashed out at Russia yes- Al Houl Combined Power Plant. on wrong diagnosis Bterday over the worsening carnage He said the peak electricity de- A Portuguese man spent 43 years in in Syria as Syrian and Russian warplanes mand in Qatar was currently around a wheelchair because of a mistaken pounded Aleppo in one of the heaviest 8,200MW. diagnosis, finally re-learning to bombing raids of the fi ve-year war. Asked whether more utility projects Fahad al-Mohannadi addressing the walk only in his fifties, a newspaper US ambassador Samantha Power ac- would be added beyond 2018, al-Mo- event yesterday. reported yesterday. When Rufino cused Russia of “barbarism” during a hannadi said: “There has been a steady Borrego was 13, he was diagnosed by Security Council emergency meeting increase in the demand for electricity ply. We are delighted to work with de- a Lisbon hospital as having incurable called to demand that Moscow rein in its and water in our country. This is obvi- pendable partners such as Siemens muscular dystrophy, the Jornal de ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, A bus is on fire following an air strike in the rebel-held Salaheddin district of Aleppo ously due to Qatar’s development and and Samsung to execute our long-term Noticias reported. After that he used and halt the intense air strikes. yesterday. population growth. plans for expanding Qatar’s power sec- a wheelchair to get around for more “Instead of pursuing peace, Rus- “Some of our existing projects are tor.” than four decades - until a neurologist sia and Assad make war,” Power said. carry out war crimes,” said British am- Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin old. A case in point is the Ras Abu Fon- Dubbed as one of the largest power realised in 2010 that he in fact suff ered “What Russia is sponsoring and doing bassador Matthew Rycroft. conceded that the surge in violence over tas A plant. It is now 43 years old. Some and water projects in the region, the from a diff erent disease that weakens is not counter-terrorism. It is barba- Britain, France and the United States the past days meant that “bringing a of our new projects will replace the ex- Umm Al Houl Combined Power Plant the muscles, myasthenia. The rare rism.” had called for the urgent talks after days peace is almost an impossible task now”. isting ones and others will be new de- will have a production capacity of 2,520 disease can be treated simply by taking At least 124 people, mostly civilians, of intense diplomatic eff orts to salvage a Churkin again laid blame for the failed velopments.” megawatts of electricity and 136mn asthma medication - and just a year have been killed in the bombardment US-Russian ceasefi re deal ended in fail- diplomacy with the United States. A US- He said there would be another util- gallons of drinking water per day. after his new diagnosis, Borrego was of rebel-held eastern Aleppo since the ure at the weekend. Russian ceasefi re deal that would have ity project in Qatar between 2018 and The integrated power and water able to walk for the first time to his army on Thursday announced an opera- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon charted a way forward towards peace 2022. “The location is roughly known. project will help meet the rising power usual neighbourhood cafe. tion to take it, the Syrian Observatory warned that the “chilling” escala- talks was broken by the “sabotage by the But I cannot disclose it now. It depends and water demand and will cover the for Human Rights said. tion making use of advanced weaponry moderate opposition”, he claimed. on how the grid moves. There is more upcoming economic zones. AMERICA | Investigation “War crimes are being committed against civilians could amount to war Churkin however said that reviving than one option. It has to be done on Umm Al Houl is expected to be com- here in Aleppo,” French ambassador crimes. the ceasefi re was still a goal that Mos- techno-economical basis,” al-Mohan- pleted in two phases. The fi rst phase Motive sought Francois Delattre said, calling for ac- Ban called on world powers to “work cow could pursue if it was part of a “col- nadi said. will be completed by 2017, with a pro- in fatal shooting tion to ensure the atrocities do not go harder for an end to the nightmare” in lective” eff ort on all sides. Earlier, speaking at the event to cel- duction of 40mn gallons of water a day. Investigators were working to determine unpunished. Syria that has left more than 300,000 Despite the recriminations, UN envoy ebrate the arrival of Siemens’ 1000th The project will reach full capacity by what led a gunman to open fire and Britain’s envoy spoke of “a new hell” people dead and driven millions from Staff an de Mistura said a “tiny window gas turbine to the Umm Al Houl Com- mid-2018. kill five people in a department store unleashed on Syrians with bunker- their homes. of opportunity... still exists” for Russia bined Power Plant at the Four Seasons, Umm Al Houl Power Company CEO at a Washington state mall, police said busting bombs and more sophisticated To protest against the attacks in and the United States to help Syria. al-Mohannadi said: “As our country Jamal al-Khalaf told Gulf Times that yesterday after arresting a 20-year-old weaponry used in air strikes pummel- Aleppo, the US, French and British am- He appealed for renewed eff orts to makes big strides towards industri- once completed, the Umm Al Houl suspect in the deadly rampage. Police ling residential areas. bassadors walked out of the Security allow Syria to “step away from the brink alisaton and developing its infrastruc- project would increase the country’s took Turkish-born Arcan Cetin into “It is diffi cult to deny that Russia is Council chamber as the Syrian ambas- of more years of bloody confl ict which ture, this power plant will be integral current electricity output by 23% and custody on Saturday evening.