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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 21 SPORT | 28 Focus on jobs at ‘Like punching a heart of Saudi mountain’, Indian reforms recalls Ali bouts WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 2016 • 3 RAMADAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6821 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir receives more Ramadan well-wishers Emir greets Crown Clean-up drive Princes of Saudi and Kuwait DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim slaps fines bin Hamad Al Thani exchanged with the Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia, Moham- mad bin Naif bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as well as the Crown Prince of QR274,875 of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, greetings and blessings on the occasion of Ram- Project, Ministry of Municipality adan, in two phone calls conducted and Environment told this daily on Monday evening. Illegal portacabins, yesterday. abandoned vehicles He said inspectors will put up a warning sticker on abandoned vehi- Emir greets Khaled removed in Industrial cle or equipment in a public place. If Area. the owner does not claim the vehicle Meshaal and King in three days, it will be taken to an open yard facing Street 33 and kept Abdullah of Jordan for another three days. By Sidi Mohamed The owner can take back the DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim The Peninsula vehicle by paying a fine of QR500 bin Hamad Al Thani exchanged along with the expense incurred for with Hamas Political Bureau towing the vehicle to the yard. Chief, Khaled Meshaal, and King If the vehicle still remains Abdullah II of Jordan, greetings DOHA: The Ministry of Municipal- unclaimed, it will be transferred and blessings on the occasion of ity and Environment imposed fines to a permanent facility in Mashaf. Ramadan, in phone calls the Emir totalling QR274,875 on erring facili- The owner can recover the vehicle received, reports QNA. ties and individuals during a massive by paying the fine and the towing Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received more well-wishers at Al Wajba Palace yesterday. clean-up campaign launched last charge. If none claims the vehicle in Emir greets Al Sisi month in the Industrial Area. three months, it will be put to public The reception was attended by H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Personal Representative The campaign was meant to auction, explained Al Shafi. of the Emir, and a number of Their Excellencies sons of H H Father Emir. → See also page 2 remove illegal portacabins, con- Until now, inspectors have put DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim struction waste as well as abandoned up 5,142 warning stickers on aban- bin Hamad Al Thani exchanged vehicles and tyres littering pub- doned vehicles and returned about with Egyptian President Abdel Fat- lic places in the crowded industrial 340 vehicles to their owners after tah Al Sisi greetings and blessings district on the outskirts of the city. collecting the fines. Sheikha Moza inducts Ministers & official in QFSW on the occasion of Ramadan, in a The ministry said yesterday that Several government entities have phone call that the Emir conducted the campaign has been a huge suc- come together for the campaign, QNA General of Qatar Development Fund Planning and Statistics H E Dr Saleh on Monday evening, reports QNA. cess, with a total of 3,338 abandoned spearheaded by the Temporary Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari to the bin Mohammed Al Nabet, Hamad bin vehicles, 14,497 abandoned tyres and Committee for Public Cleaning at membership of the Board of Direc- Mohammed Al Fehaid Al Hajeri, HE 6,685 waste removed until now. the ministry, Doha Municipality, DOHA: H H Sheikha Moza bint tors of Qatar Foundation for Social Executive Director of Doha Inter- “The campaign is continuing Lekhwiya, Traffic Department, and Nasser issued yesterday a decision to Work (QFSW). national Family Institute Noor bint RAMADAN during Ramadan and is expected to Al Fazaa. Four teams from Doha add Minister of Administrative Devel- QFSW Board of Directors is Abdullah Al Maliki Al Jehani, H E TIMING end next month. We have achieved Municipality are participating in opment, Labour and Social Affairs chaired by Muneera bint Nasser Chancellor Rabia Karzapi, and Chief about 60 to 70 percent of the tar- the campaign. H E Dr Issa bin Saad Al Jafali, Minis- Al Misned, and includes: H E Dr Executive Officer of QFAW Amal bint Today’s Iftar 6 : 26 pm get until now,” Safar Mubarak Al ter of Public Health H E Dr Hanan bint Kaltham bint Ali Al Ghanim (deputy Abdullatif Al Mannai. Tomorrow’s Imsak 3 : 04 am Shafi, Director, General Cleanliness → Picture on page 3 Mohammed Al Kuwari and Director chairman), Minister of Development → Continued on page 2 Seven cops, four Nato exercise civilians dead in ‘Legal clinic’ for QU Istanbul attack law students this Fall AFP The Peninsula and University of Arizona recently had a ISTANBUL: Police have detained discussion in this regard. four suspects over an Istanbul car It was followed by a workshop at Geor- bombing that targeted a police bus DOHA: Qatar University College of Law getown SFS with speakers including LAWC yesterday, killing 11 people in the (LAWC) is preparing to establish a legal dean Dr Mohamed Al Khulaifi and direc- third deadly attack to strike Tur- clinic ‘TradeLab’ at the college in the Fall tor of the Office of the State of Qatar to the key’s biggest city this year. this year. World Trade Organization (WTO) Sheikh The attack in Istanbul’s Beyazit The TradeLab will provide LAWC Ali Al Thani. district, close to major tourist sites, undergraduate students the opportunity to LAWC Assistant Professor Dr Talal Al killed seven police officers and gain hands-on experience on legal projects Emadi said, “This underlines the College’s four civilians, state media said. submitted by clients from private and gov- ongoing efforts to engage its students in Another 36 people were ernment organisations. Students will also learning-by-doing activities beyond the wounded, three of them seri- benefit from working with practising law- classroom that prepare them for employ- ously, Istanbul Governor Vasip yers on solving legal problems for clients. ment as legal professionals. This will enable Sahin said. TradeLab is the result of an NPRP- them to make significant contributions to UN chief Ban Ki-moon led funded research project implemented in the labour market and to the country’s international condemnation of 2014 that was designed to introduce stake- growth, in line with the Human Develop- the bombing, which his spokes- holders to global trade and investment rules ment Pillar of Qatar National Vision 2030.” man called a “despicable terrorist while combining academic research with LAWC Assistant Professor Dr Jon Truby attack”. The blast reduced the bus, novelties in Internet technology and legal said, “By establishing the legal clinic, LAWC which was carrying riot police, to education. Fifteen experts from local and is demonstrating its position as a lead- mangled wreckage. It gutted the international institutions such as QU, Fikra ing partner in contributing to sustainable Polish troops land with parachutes at the military compound near Torun, central Poland, front of a hotel opposite and shat- Research & Policy, Georgetown University solutions to legal questions that impact the yesterday, as part of the Nato Anaconda-16 military exercise. → See also page 16 tered the windows of nearby shops. SFS Qatar, Graduate Institute of Interna- society.” The four suspects were taken tional and Development Studies-Geneva, → Picture on page 3 to police headquarters in Istanbul for interrogation. → See also page 6 Deluge of civilians flees IS stronghold in northern Syria AFP for the jihadists. The Arab-Kurdish are progressing well,” said Sherfan The SDF is now within five kilo- cars but many carrying their belong- offensive on the town of Manbij is one Darwish, who is leading the offen- metres of Manbij from the north, two ings on foot, the Observatory’s Rami of two major assaults on the route IS sive of the Syrian Democratic Forces kilometres from the south and about Abdel Rahman said, using an Arabic BEIRUT: Thousands of civilians yes- uses to send in more fighters, weapons launched just over a week ago. seven kilometres from the east, said acronym for IS. About 20,000 people terday fled a stronghold of the Islamic and money from the Turkish border to “Every day, we are liberating vil- the Syrian Observatory for Human are still living in Manbij, which had a >PAGE 19 State group in northern Syria almost its main Syrian bastion of Raqa. lages and the only route open to IS Rights. pre-war population of about 120,000 surrounded by US-backed fighters “We have surrounded Man- now is towards Aleppo city” to the “Daesh has begun allowing civil- — mostly Arabs, but about a quarter seeking to cut a key supply lifeline bij from three sides and operations west, Darwish told AFP by phone. ians to flee towards the west,” some in Syrian Kurds. 02 WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 2016 HOME Emir receives Ramadan well-wishers Sheikha Moza issues decision Continued from page 1 Qatar Foundation for Social Work (QFSW) was formed under the directives of H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser in August 2013 as a non-profit development organ- ization that aims at developing civil society organizations working under its umbrella, strengthening their capabilities, and promot- ing their role in the society and in the development of strategies and policies that contribute to the upgrading of these organizations to achieve the desired goals. A number of specialized centres are affiliated to QFSW, including Social Development Centre, Shafallah Centre for Chil- dren with Special Needs, Family Counselling Centre, Orphans Care Centre Qatar (Dhreima), Centre for Care and Empowerment of the Elderly people (IHSAN), Pro- tection and Rehabilitation Centre, Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received more Ramadan well-wishers, including sheikhs and and the “Best Buddies” initiative.