ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 19 June 2013 10 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5735 Price: QR2 Qatar Exchange Uzbekistan win but to trade govt miss automatic bonds spot for Brazil Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar University graduation New York Police Three Nepalese sued over Muslim surveillance workers die in NEW YORK: The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a law- suit yesterday against the New York Police Department over its surveillance of Muslim com- minivan crash munities, accusing the police of trampling on religious freedoms and constitutional guarantees of equality. Driver loses control after tyre bursts The surveillance by the NYPD’s intelligence division has extended DOHA: Three Nepalese con- Dhamal and Brijnath Pandit, all beyond New York City’s five bor- struction workers were killed between 35 and 40. oughs into neighboring New and 13 injured when a minivan “We were returning from our Jersey and other nearby states. carrying them hit a side wall worksite in Bin Mahmoud around The lawsuit is the latest skirmish after a tyre burst on Salwa 4.30pm. After we entered the in an ongoing battle between the Road yesterday. tunnel, a tyre burst and the driver NYPD and civil liberties advocates The incident happened in the lost control of the van, which then over the department’s aggressive afternoon in a newly-opened tun- broke a steel divider on the road policing tactics — including its nel on the road, it was learnt. The and hit the wall,” said the worker, stop-and-frisk practices, which vehicle was carrying 16 workers. who suffered minor injuries. are the subject of a separate fed- The driver was an Egyptian, The van took several turns on eral lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in and all other workers travelling the highway, before hitting the US District Court for the Eastern in the van were Nepalese. They wall. One of the dead was tossed District of New York, in Brooklyn, were returning from their work- out of the van and was probably seeks to put an end to the NYPD’s site in Doha to their accommo- run over by it. The other two died surveillance of Muslims and the dation in Al Sailiya, one of the apparently after hitting the steel The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani honouring a student at Qatar University Graduation destruction of all records on indi- injured Nepalese workers told The body and the bars of the van with Ceremony — Class of 2013 at Qatar National Convention Center yesterday. Also present is University President viduals created as a result of the Peninsula last evening. severe force. Prof Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad. See also page 5 programme. REUTERS The dead have been identified All the others in the van were as Krishna Raj Banshi, Paspal injured, at least five of them seri- ously. The victims included a fore- man, besides the Egyptian driver. “The ambulance team arrived in 10 minutes and we were all taken Putin blocks G8 push for Assad’s ouster to the Emergency Department (of the Hamad Medical Corporation). ENNISKILLEN, had been hoping for, Putin fumed and resisted pressure to agree to Washington, which was supposed Six workers including me were NORTHERN IRELAND: against Western moves to supply anything that would imply Assad to take place next month but now discharged later and we are Russia’s Vladimir Putin weapons to rebels while defending should step down. In the end, a G8 appears to be on hold, after the expecting another two to leave derailed Barack Obama’s efforts his own supplies of arms for Assad. communique did not even men- United States announced last the hospital by tonight,” said the to win backing for the down- “We are supplying weapons tion Assad’s name. week that it would arm the rebels. worker. fall of Syrian leader Bashar under legal contracts to the legal The summit in a secluded golf A source at the summit said He was speaking from his Al Assad at a G8 summit yes- government. That is the govern- resort in Northern Ireland ended the peace conference would now accommodation in Al Sailiya, terday, warning the West that ment of President Assad. And if with G8 leaders calling for peace be put off at least until August. where he was staying with some arms supplied to the rebels we are going to sign such con- talks to be held as soon as pos- Obama and his allies want other workers involved in the could be used for attacks on tracts, we are going to deliver,” sible to resolve the Syrian civil Assad to cede power while Putin accident. He came to Qatar last European soil. the Russian president said. war. This has broadly been their believes that would be disastrous month to work as a mason with After two days of intense talks Putin, isolated at the summit, position for months. No date at a time when no clear transition The wall against which the mini van the company. that fell far short of what Obama repeatedly clashed with other was mentioned for a peace con- plan exists. REUTERS crashed on Salwa Road. THE PENINSULA and Prime Minister David Cameron leaders over the fate of Assad ference called by Moscow and See also page 8 Police detain dozens in Turkey US officials to hold talks ANKARA/ISTANBUL: Police across Turkey yesterday with Taliban in Doha detained dozens of people in an operation linked to three weeks WASHINGTON/KABUL: towards reconciliation; although solution, but said no dates had of often violent protests against The United States will meet the it’s a very early step,” Obama said been agreed for talks. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Taliban this week in Doha for after a G8 meeting in Enniskillen, Taliban representative Erdogan. talks aimed at achieving peace Northern Ireland. Mohammed Naeem told a news Overnight in Ankara, riot in Afghanistan, US officials said “We anticipate there will be a briefing the group wanted good police used tear gas and water yesterday. lot of bumps in the road.” relations with “all of the world cannon to disperse hundreds of The Taliban opened an office US officials say they hope the countries.” protesters who had gathered in in Doha yesterday to help restart meeting will open the way for the “But the Islamic emirate and around the government quar- talks and said it wanted a political first official peace talks between (Taliban) sees the independence ter of Kizilay. solution that would bring about a the government of Afghan of the nation from the current Interior Minister Muammer just government and end foreign President Hamid Karzai and occupation as a national and reli- Guler said 62 people had been occupation of Afghanistan. the Taliban, which has waged a gious obligation,” he said. detained in Turkey’s biggest city A senior US official said the 12-year campaign to oust him and US officials said that in the Istanbul and 23 in the capital talks would start in Doha tomor- foreign troops. talks in Doha, the United States Ankara. State broadcaster TRT row, but President Barack Obama The Taliban have until now said would stick to its insistence that also said a further 13 had been cautioned against expectations of they would not countenance talks the Taliban break ties with Al held in Eskisehir. A police source quick progress, saying the peace with the government, which they Qaeda, end violence, and accept confirmed the operation and said: process would not be easy or consider a stooge of the United the Afghan constitution, includ- “For now, only provocateurs will quick. States and other Western states ing protection for women and be taken for questioning.” US officials said the process in the Nato coalition fighting in minorities. Karzai said yester- See also page 7 could take many years and be Afghanistan. day his government would send a Qatar’s Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs H E Ali bin Fahad Al Hajri with subject to reversals. In opening the Qatar office, the team to Qatar. Kuwait hangs two Taliban officials at the opening of the group’s Doha office yesterday. “This is an important first step Taliban said it sought a political REUTERS for murder, rape KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait hanged two Egyptian men yes- terday, one for murder and Young Pakistanis struggle to find jobs in Qatar the other for abduction and rape, state news agency Kuna BY AZMAT HAROON themselves here after having gone above 25 cannot be under his to hire them. A senior official of 100,000 Pakistanis here, of which reported, in the second set of through the job-hunt for as long father’s sponsorship. a Pakistani construction and con- some 15 to 25 percent live with e x e c u t i o n s i n t h e G u l f A r a b s t a t e DOHA: An increasing number as two years. Work visas for Pakistanis, on tracting company, who requested their families. this year. Ahmad Abdulsalam of young Pakistanis are find- Despite being born and raised the other hand, cost QR60,000 in anonymity, said that even their There is no official data avail- Al Beili was sentenced to death ing it hard to find jobs in Qatar, in Qatar, many said they may the black market here, making it firm was not very keen to employ able on how many of them are for the premeditated murder of with many alleging discrimina- have to leave the country soon one of the most expensive ‘free Pakistanis because people with employed, an official of the two people and Hajjaj Al Saeedi tion while applying for jobs.