ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 13 May 2013 3 Rajab 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5698 Price: QR2 Qatar boosts Nadal cruises relations to Madrid with Hungary Masters title Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets IAAF President Hassad Food First model commercial capital raised complex ready in Qatar to $3bn DOHA: The capital of Hassad Food Company has been increased from $1bn to $3bn. Shops sold out to Qatari bidders through raffle It follows a decision during a Supreme Council for Economic DOHA: A first commercial All buyers are from Al has so far been made on the plan Affairs and Investment meeting complex of its kind, with out- Dhakhira, it is learned. “This is to build a service centre in each yesterday. lets catering to basic needs of a unique experiment,” Central residential locality. The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad a residential locality like a pro- Municipal Council (CMC) mem- Recently, the Ministry of Business bin Khalifa Al Thani, also vision store, laundry, tailoring ber from Al Dhakhira, Hamad and Trade has again extended President of the council, chaired and barber shops, beauty salon, Lahdan Al Mohannadi, said. licences of neighbourhood stores the second meeting for 2013 at the butchery, restaurant and caf- The complex has been built on until early July 2014. Emiri Diwan. eteria, among other things, is the lines of the ones proposed by It is learned that new and The Heir Apparent and the ready in Al Dhakhira. municipal authorities across the emerging residential localities on Ccouncil’s Vice President H It has been built at the initia- country to house basic service the outskirts of Doha and other H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad tive of the local community as a shops and relocate neighbourhood towns have plots of land reserved Al Thani and Prime Minister model service centre, the likes of stores and other basic shops scat- for building service centres. and Foreign Minister and the which are planned in each resi- tered in residential localities. However, old residential locali- Council’s Executive Member dential locality across the country The plan to house these shops ties, particularly in Doha, are H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem that would see the shifting of all in a service centre is under study facing problems because large bin Jabor Al Thani attended. local neighbourhood stores and at the ministry. The decision to government plots are hardly The Minister of Economy and other basic service shops housed relocate neighbourhood stores and available, sources said. Finance and the council’s Secretary under one roof. other basic service shops from resi- Al Sharq reported yester- General H E Yousuf Hussain The shops in the model Al dential localities was first made by day that it is possible Al Meera Kamal told Qatar News Agency Dhakhira service complex have the government in 2006. Consumer Goods chain might be that the meeting was briefed on been sold out to Qatari bidders Licences of these outlets have entrusted with the responsibility to follow-up of the council’s previous through a raffle, supervised by been extended on a yearly basis develop proposed service centres. The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with International decisions and measures taken. the Ministry of Municipality and by the Ministry of Business and THE PENINSULA Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack He said the agenda included Urban Planning. Trade ever since, as little headway Continued on page 4 at Emiri Diwan yesterday. Lamine arrived in Doha to attend the IAAF a presentation on Qatar Diamond League. Petroleum’s five-year plan (2013- 2017), approval of the general budget and Qatar Petroleum’s income statement for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2012. Qatar postpones THE PENINSULA IPO of $12bn Qatar disburses $68m aid to Syria UN hails Qatar role investment firm DOHA: Qatar has provided a fourth instal- in release of Golan ment of humanitarian assistance worth DUBAI: A planned floatation $25m to Syrians in refugee camps in north- peacekeepers of Doha Global Investment Co, ern Lebanon. a $12bn Qatari investment firm It aims to provide food and clothing to UNITED NATIONS: Qatar backed by assets from the state’s 200,000 people and health assistance to 60,000. played a key role negotiating the sovereign wealth fund, has been A public health centre will be set up in Wadi release of four Filipino peace- postponed pending necessary Khalid to treat about 10,000 patients a month. keepers seized by Syrian rebels approvals, a senior bourse official The clinic will provide medicines and emer- in the UN patrolled Golan said yesterday. Qatar unveiled gency care to patients and perform surgeries. Heights ceasefire zone, UN offi- plans to create the investment The assistance will cover areas of northern cials said yesterday. company in February and said Bekaa Valley, Akar, Al Dhaniyah and Tripoli UN leader Ban Ki-moon praised Qatar Holding will transfer $3bn Alia. Qatar has so far disbursed $68m aid. Qatar’s role as he welcomed the worth of assets into the new firm, Doha also continues to provide assistance to release of the four who had been with a similar amount raised in affected Syrian people in their country, includ- held for five days. Ban “appreciates an initial public offering on the ing Damascus and its suburbs, Edlib suburb and the assistance of Qatar and of others Qatar Exchange. refugee camps along the border with Turkey. involved in securing their safe release,” The IPO has been postponed About one million Syrians are receiving food, said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky. “until all requirements and approv- clothing, medical aid and education services It is the second time in two months als from the concerned authori- under the project. A council or society in each that Filipino peacekeepers from the ties are obtained,” Hussein Ali Al city has been assigned to ensure delivery of aid UN Disengagement Observer Force Abdullah, Acting Chairman of both to the needy, Qatar News Agency reports. in the Golan have been seized by the Qatar Holding and the bourse, said. Workers distributing in Syria the fourth instalment of aid sent by Qatar. THE PENINSULA Syrian rebel group. See also page 18 See also page 7 See also page 2 Poll results fail to surprise Sharif’s party Sars-like virus in Saudi wins 94 seats has killed 15: Minister LAHORE: Former Pakistani Pakistani diaspora prime minister Nawaz Sharif RIYADH: Fifteen people in Fukuda told reporters in Saudi looked poised yesterday to Saudi Arabia have died from Arabia, the site of the largest BY AZMAT HAROON concerns over rallies in Karachi in rural areas. Interestingly, PPP, return to office with a resound- a Sars-like virus out of 24 peo- cluster of infections, that there and Lahore last evening in pro- which led the outgoing coalition, ing election victory. ple who contracted it since was no evidence so far the virus DOHA: Election results in test against alleged rigging in the was defeated in the election. Sharif may not win enough last August, Health Minister was able to sustain “generalised Pakistan have not surprised aftermath of unofficial results. However, a large majority of seats to rule on his own but Abdu l la h A l Rabia sa id yesterday. transmission in communities” — many Pakistanis in Qatar as Pakistanis here were glued to youngsters here were rooting for has built up enough momen- “The number of people who a scenario that would raise the no political party is expected to their TV screens and following Khan and many had sent funds tum to avoid having to form a contracted the virus in the king- spectre of a pandemic. garner absolute majority on its updates on social media channels. for his party. coalition with his main rivals, dom since August/September is But he added: “Of most concern own. They have been very active “Many Pakistani youngsters former cricketer Imran Khan’s 24, of whom 15 have died,” Rabia ... is the fact that the different clus- What has, though, come as politically since Qatar chapters of here, irrespective of their eth- Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the told a news conference here. ters seen in multiple countries ... a surprise for the Pakistani Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and nicity, supported Khan and col- Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). An earlier toll provided by the increasingly support the hypothesis diaspora here is the emergence PML-N were formed years ago. lected large amounts for PTI,” US President Barack Obama World Health Organisation yes- that when there is close contact, on the country’s political scene Many said they had ‘faith’ in Jassim Khan said, adding he was praised “the historic peaceful terday said 11 people had died in this novel coronavirus can trans- of former cricketer-turned- Sharif because he had ‘matured disheartened. and transparent transfer of Saudi Arabia since last year from mit from person to person. There politician Imran Khan, with his politically’ as he had been through He said many youngsters civilian power”. the disease whose medical term is is a need for countries to ... increase Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) different stages of the develop- believed political parties had Television channels said of the NCoV-EMC, or novel coronavirus. levels of awareness,” he said. party as the second largest ment of politics in Pakistan. failed to eliminate corruption results declared by yesterday Rabia also said three other peo- A public health expert said grouping after Nawaz Sharif-led “The PML-N leadership seems and shown they were incapable evening, Sharif’s PML-N had ple are suspected of having con- “close contact” meant being in Pakistan Muslim League-N.