ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 6 November 2012 21 Dhul-Hijja 1433 - Volume 17 Number 5510 Price: QR2 Europe seeks Murray off to Asian support winning start on debt crisis at Tour Finals Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir visits exhibition Emir to address Ministry, CMC Advisory Council DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani will address the 41st session members spar of the Advisory Council at White Palace today. The Emir’s speech will mark the inaugura- tion of the regular weekly ses- sions of the Council. The speech over projects will highlight the important achievements of Qatar in the economic, political, cultural CMC accused of taking undue credit and social sectors, locally and internationally. The Emir will also speak about Qatar’s role DOHA: Senior officials of the of its rising rivalry with ministry in international and regional Ministry of Municipality and officials. issues and the major issues Urban Planning have been “We are a public representa- and challenges facing the Arab privately accusing Central tive body with only consultative world. Municipal Council (CMC) status. We don’t enjoy executive members of taking the credit powers. However, on the demand Pakistan president for launching and completing of our constituents we do pro- various civic projects to hog the pose some projects to the civic arrives today limelight, say some local media ministry and they are accepted circles. and implemented as well,” CMC DOHA: The President of The projects are actually being chairman Saud Al Hanzab told Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, conceptualised, launched and The Peninsula yesterday. arrives here today on a two-day completed by the civic and other He said his personal estimates The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani at the 1001 Inventions Exhibition at the Museum of Islamic official visit. The visit is tak- ministries but the CMC is using suggest that out of a 100 civic Art yesterday. The Emir, accompanied by Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Qatar Museums Authority, ing place at the invitation of the media to create the impression projects launched or completed H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, toured the exhibition and was briefed on the sci- the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad that it is behind all development in a constituency, some 20 to 40 bin Khalifa Al Thani. entists’ creations in the Golden Age of Islamic Civilisation. The exhibition had the theme “Explore Our Past efforts, say ministry officials. are the brainchild of the CMC See also page 7 To Inspire Our Future”. The CMC vehemently denies member. “If a CMC member sug- any difference of opinion between gests a project for his ward and if its members and ministry officials that proposal has been accepted and says any misunderstandings and the project has been launched that arise during the course of or completed, it is natural that their interaction can be sorted out the member would be happy and at the routine monthly meeting of claim credit for that, so what’s the Blasts kill two Asians in Bahrain its chairman and the municipal harm,” asked Al Hanzab. minister. Notwithstanding the Besides, the budget of the civic DUBAI: Five bombs exploded to ensure public safety, could have bombs” and said a third Asian Matar of the Shia party Wefaq CMC’s denial, some in media cir- ministry for development work in the heart of the Bahraini been the work of government worker had been wounded. said he doubted that opposition cles insist the public representa- is divided among the 29 munici- capital Manama yesterday, kill- forces trying to justify the ban or One of the attacks took place activists were behind yesterday’s tive body is indeed on a collision palities so each ward gets its due ing two Asian street cleaners, a further crackdown. outside a cinema, where one of the attacks, noting that leading Shia course with the ministry. share. “A CMC member is always officials said, prompting mutual Injuries to protesters or street cleaners died after kick- clerics had called on followers to Public pressure is, therefore, under pressure, for he has been accusations from activists and a police are relatively common ing a package that then blew up. avoid escalating the conflict with mounting on both sides to sit chosen by his constituents so he government trying to put down in the 21-month-old uprising, A witness said there was little the government. across the table and sort out their must deliver. The constituents a mostly Shia pro-democracy but attacks on the public have material damage at that scene, He suggested the police or mili- differences in the public interest. have every right to make demands uprising. been rare on the island, where suggesting the blast had not tary might have been responsible, And, interestingly, despite its for projects in their locality,” said The Interior Ministry said the Sunni Muslim Al Khalifa been large. or a rogue unit. denial of differences with the civic the CMC chief. the bombs were home-made and dynasty rules over a majority Shia Police say they have been the “This incident is strange — why ministry, the CMC maintains Denying differences with the described the blasts as “terrorist population. target of numerous attacks with would anyone target workers?” he its members do have the right ministry, Al Hanzab said he meets acts” — its term for violence by The explosions took place home-made bombs since April, said. “I’m worried that police and to claim credit for development the Municipal Minister as a mat- opposition activists. between 4.30am and 9.30am including one that killed a police- military are losing control of their projects launched or completed in ter of routine every month and But an opposition politician and (0130 and 0630 GMT) in the man last month, as the govern- units or it is (preparation) before their constituencies. raises issues that might affect the a rights activist said the attacks, Qudaibiya and Adliya districts of ment has stepped up efforts to declaring martial law.” The CMC blames sections of smooth coordination between the which came days after the gov- Manama, the BNA agency said, quell an uprising that has crippled US has urged Bahrain to begin the media for what it says is their CMC and the ministry. ernment said it had banned all citing a police official. It described the economy. dialogue on democratic reforms tendency to manufacture stories THE PENINSULA rallies and opposition gatherings the explosives as “locally made Opposition politician Matar with the opposition. REUTERS Syria’s rebel bloc agrees to include Rise to e-media challenge, 13 more groups Al Attiyah tells newspapers DOHA: Syria’s main opposi- BY RAYNALD C RIVERA readers to compete with e-media which tion bloc, under pressure from is providing news fast,” said Al Attiyah. Washington to reshape into a DOHA: Newspapers need to forge Having come from a generation which widely representative govern- ahead in providing high quality news loves reading, Al Attiyah expressed the ment-in-exile, agreed yester- and deeper analysis of issues for hope that newspapers and books would day to broaden its structure to them to compete with the burgeon- be able to compete with electronic accommodate other groups, a ing online media, says Chairman media with the emergence of advanced spokesman said. of the Administrative Control technology. The decision by the Syrian and Transparency Authority, H E “I can’t imagine a world without National Council came on the Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah. newspapers and books,” he said after second day of a four-day meet- Al Attiyah was addressing local touring the various stalls represent- ing of opposition groups in Doha media yesterday at the opening of the ing television channels, media houses, aimed at forging a more united second Media, Advertising and Printing printing companies, government enti- front against Syrian President Technology Exhibition (Media Expo ties and newspaper companies including Bashar Al Assad’s regime. Qatar 2012), organised by Dar Al Sharq Al Sharq newspaper where he was pro- Participants “have agreed a at the Doha International Exhibition vided a glimpse of the newspaper’s evo- restructuring plan and to reduce Center. lution from its oldest copies to the latest the number of (current) mem- “As we have seen in some countries, technology it uses. He also feted Dar bers of the general secretariat to General Manager of Dar Al Sharq, Abdullatif Al Mahmoud (right), presenting a memento to Chairman of newspapers have been replaced by elec- Al Sharq, organisers of the expo, as it accommodate 200 new members the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, at the 2nd tronic media, newspapers therefore need celebrates its 25th anniversary. representing 13 political groups Media Expo Qatar 2012 at the Doha International Exhibition Center yesterday. Also seen are Editor-in- to develop themselves by providing high THE PENINSULA and independents,” said SNC Chief of Al Sharq Jaber Al Harami and Deputy General Manager of Dar Al Sharq Ibrahim Al Sayed. quality news and deeper analysis to their Continued on page 4 spokesman Ahmad Kamel. He said that the number of members has been reduced from 313 to 220 while 200 new ones would be added. The SNC gen- eral secretariat would convene Qatar and Ethiopia resume ties after four-year hiatus in its revamped structure today, he added. The meeting is also expected to discuss an initiative ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia armed opposition groups in the “We believe peace brings devel- Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in Minister Hailemariam Desalegn by leading dissident Riad Seif, and Qatar have resumed dip- Horn of Africa.