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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 US-Islamic World Forum Blatter blasts Govt moves criticism of Fifa as racist to address SAO PAULO: Fifa presi- dent Sepp Blatter yesterday launched a scathing attack on those he said were “plotting to destroy” world soccer’s govern- school crunch ing body, and branded some of the criticism of the Qatar World Cup award for 2022 as racist. Low-rate loans for private schools Blatter was addressing del- egates of the African and Asian DOHA: In a first in the region, primary and secondary schools. confederations at their extraor- the government yesterday Even university projects would be dinary congresses ahead of Fifa’s announced a major financing considered. annual congress which starts initiative for investors and busi- State-owned Qatar here today. nessmen to enter the education Development Bank (QDB) and The African congress, which sector in a big way. the school regulator, the Supreme declared its “continued support” The idea, apparently, is to Education Council (SEC), yester- for Blatter, who intends to run address the acute shortage of pri- day jointly announced the unique for a fifth term as president vate schools in the country amid financing scheme. next year, also passed a resolu- a booming economy and a heavy They said in a statement that tion condemning what it called influx of expatriate families.