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BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 8 Dhoni, Kumar trump INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2, 16 COMMENT 14, 15 ARAB WORLD 3 BUSINESS 1-8, 10-12 Dananjaya 21,793.80 8,951.82 47.43 INTERNATIONAL 4-12 CLASSIFIED 9 Qatar’s non-oil exports -18.29 -101.78 -0.98 ISLAM 13 SPORT 1-8 brilliance -0.08% -1.12% -2.02% hit QR1.3bn in July ’17 Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 FRIDAY Vol. XXXVIII No. 10556 August 25, 2017 Dhul-Hijja 3, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals FM to visit India today In brief E the Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Hal-Thani will arrive in the In- dian capital New Delhi today evening, India’s Ministry of External Aff airs QATAR | Diplomacy (MEA) announced yesterday. Emir sends message During the two-day visit, Sheikh Mohamed will call on Prime Min- to Australian PM ister Narendra Modi and hold talks His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin with his Indian counterpart Sushma Hamad al-Thani yesterday sent a written Swaraj, leading Indian daily Hin- message to Australian Prime Minister dustan Times reported, quoting the Malcolm Turnbull. MEA. The message, which was handed over Qatar is an important trading part- through diplomatic channels, was ner for India in the Gulf region with related to bilateral relations between the bilateral trade in 2014-15 standing at two countries and ways of advancing $15.67bn. It is also one of India’s larg- and developing them. est suppliers of crude oil. QATAR | Offi cial Greetings sent to Ukraine’s leader Off icials including Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker, architect Ibrahim al-Jaidah, Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy Secretary General Hassan al-Thawadi His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim and Hamad International Airport Chief Operating Off icer Badr Mohamed al-Meer pose in front of a model of the Al Thumama Stadium which was installed at the main Qatar closes bin Hamad al-Thani, His Highness the departures hall. Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Chad embassy Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday atar yesterday ordered the em- sent cables of congratulations to bassy of Chad be closed and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Qgave its diplomats 72 hours to Groysman on the anniversary of his leave country’s Independence Day. Director of the Information Offi ce World Cup projects at the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs, HE REGION | Peace Ambassador Ahmed bin Saeed al-Ru- maihi accused Chad of joining a “cam- UN chief to start paign of blackmail” with its decision to Mideast visit today shutter the Qatari embassy. The United Nations (UN) Secretary- He said the timing of the decision General Antonio Guterres will today start of the government of Chad in closing a tour to the Middle East that includes on track: SC chief Qatar’s embassy in N’Djamena clearly Kuwait, Palestine and Israel. The UN reveals the decision was part of the Secretary-General’s spokesperson campaign of political blackmail against Stephane Dujarric said in remarks z‘Event is for Middle East and Arab world’ Qatar with the intention of joining the yesterday that Guterres will discuss siege countries for well-known rea- during the visit the situation in the By Sahan Bidappa Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt has “Projects are being delivered on time. all our projects are on track,” he added. sons. region in addition to reviving the peace Doha had no impact on the massive infra- As you can see this is one of the mile- Al Thumama Stadium will seat Chad said on Wednesday it was giv- process. structure projects that are under way to stones, and we just fi nished another mile- 40,000 spectators and will host match- ing Qatari diplomats 10 days to leave prepare for the World Cup. stone with the Khalifa stadium opening. es leading up to the quarter-fi nal stage the country. ASIA | Judiciary he 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qa- “Our projects are on track, they are We are on track to complete two more when the FIFA World Cup kicks off on Indian court says privacy tar is still fi ve years away but the on schedule,” said al-Thawadi. stadiums in 2018. As I have said before, November 21, 2022. To Page 2 TSupreme Committee for Deliv- is a fundamental right ery and Legacy (SC) is well on track to India’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday complete the infrastructure projects Fans from all countries welcome, says al-Thawadi that citizens have a constitutional well ahead of the event, Supreme Com- Iran welcomes right to privacy, a landmark decision mittee Secretary General Hassan al- Hassan al-Thawadi, the secretary- fore we are not restricting anybody that could jeopardise a government Thawadi said yesterday. general of the Supreme Committee from attending. As a matter of fact, programme holding biometric data He was speaking to journalists at the for Delivery & Legacy, has said there today everybody is welcome. We have Qatar’s decision on over a billion people. Privacy is Hamad International Airport where a will be no restrictions on fans from any not restricted anyone from coming. not explicitly mentioned in the Indian model of the Al Thumama Stadium, country to travel to Qatar for the 2022 It will be a shame if people from any QNA constitution and the government has the sixth World Cup stadium to be World Cup. GCC country miss out on the once-in- Tehran argued that the country’s 1.25bn people launched by Qatar, was installed at the Hundreds of thousands of football fans a-lifetime opportunity to watch football have no absolute right to it. But the main departures hall. from GCC are expected to pour into World Cup in the Middle East. If anyone top court said the right to privacy was The stadium’s design is inspired by Qatar to watch the first World Cup to takes a unilateral action, that is some- ran’s Foreign Ministry yesterday enshrined in the constitution. Page 9 the ‘gahfi ya’, a traditional woven cap be held in the Middle East. thing out of our control,” he said. welcomed Qatar’s decision to re- worn for centuries by males in many And al-Thawadi said fans from all The secretary-general of the SC said Iturn its ambassador to Tehran. AMERICA | Luck Arab countries. In Qatar and surround- countries – including Saudi Arabia – are the 2022 World Cup is an opportunity Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign ing countries, men wear the ‘gahfi ya’ welcome to watch the mega tourna- to promote Middle East unity. “This is a Ministry Bahram Qasemi said in re- US hospital worker beneath the ‘ghutra’ (fl owing cot- ment, despite the blockade of Qatar, Hassan al-Thawadi World Cup to bring people together, to marks carried by Iran’s news agency wins $758.7mn jackpot ton cloth) and ‘agal’ (decorative black which has entered the third month. promote Middle East unity, culture and Irna that Tehran sees the Qatari deci- A 53-year-old hospital worker claimed a rope). Al-Thawadi was not concerned that be- thing else. From our side everybody is heritage. And more importantly it is a sion as reasonable and positive. $758.7mn US lottery jackpot yesterday. The style and even the name of the cause of the GCC crisis many Gulf fans welcome. The whole world is welcome, platform to bring the east and the west “Iran believes that restoration of Mavis Wanczyk bought the winning ‘gahfi ya’ varies slightly from country would not travel to Qatar, even though we have always said that,” al-Thawadi together among many other initiatives security and stability would lead to Powerball ticket for the second-largest to country, yet it binds Arab nations to- the World Cup is still five years away. said yesterday at the unveiling of the that we have, that is the need at this economic development and non-in- US jackpot in the north-eastern US state gether through shared tradition. “This is a World Cup. The nature of the Al Thumama Stadium design at the point in time in the world. terference of trans-regional powers,” of Massachusetts, one of 44 states that Designed by renowned Qatari archi- football is it’s a game for the people. It’s Hamad International Airport. “We are in co-ordination with our Arab he said. participate in the draw, along with the tect Ibrahim al-Jaidah, the venue is set a game that is meant to diff erentiate “This is a World Cup and a platform to brothers. Simply put the rest of the Iran is ready to take steps to remove US capital Washington and territories of to be completed by 2020. between political ideology and it’s actu- bring people together at a time when Arab world is still supporting this World ambiguities and problems through po- Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Al-Thawadi insisted that the ongo- ally promoting unity, more than any- unity is of utmost importance. There- Cup and they are with us.” litical means among countries in the Page 5 ing illegal blockade of Qatar by Saudi region, Qasemi said. Golden smile Siege nations strain to defame Qatar z Average of 15 articles publishing at least 120 hateful articles. published per day since The number of caricatures published June 5, QMC data shows in the blockaders’ newspapers during this period has totalled 580, most of By Ahmed al-Qudah which can simply be described as im- Doha moral and against Islamic values even by a layman.