ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 28 October 2012 12 Dhul-Hijja 1433 - Volume 17 Number 5501 Price: QR2 US interrogates Sharapova and Imran Khan on Serena in drone strikes title clash Business | 12 Sport | 19 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Hectic day for QTA’s Eid celebrations emergency unit at HMC One person dies in traffic accident DOHA: At least three deaths racing in the Sealine locality, were reported to Hamad particularly as people involved in Medical Corporation’s emer- accidents are youth. gency services on the sec- Most mishaps occur in remote ond day of Eid Al Adha here desert areas so reaching medical yesterday. help becomes a difficult and time- Another tragic incident that consuming, say critics. HMC’s emergency unit attended Sand dune areas need strict to involved a speeding bus that monitoring by helicopters so hit a three-year-old child in Ain that those involved in accidents Khalid locality. The child suffered due to reckless driving or racing critical injuries. could be provided instant medi- Details of one of the three cal attention. deaths suggested that a Nepalese It was a hectic day for the died on the spot late on Friday emergency section of HMC on the night having been a victim second day of Eid as more than of a car-pick-up crash in the 1,300 cases were reported during Industrial Area. the day. Most of them related to Another person suffered seri- stomach upsets and ailments. ous injuries in the same mishap. Doctors said high red meat There were in all 30 road acci- intake, especially eating the dents brought to the notice of meat of sheep which has high fat Artistes perform as part of Eid Al Adha celebrations organised by Qatar Tourism Authority at The Mall yesterday. See also Page 2 SHAIVAL DALAL HMC emergency services. content in large quantities, was Traffic movement on the responsible for stomach disorders roads and highways was other- in a vast majority of cases. wise smooth yesterday due to The emergency unit received large presence of traffic police some 104 calls and at least half Ministry blamed and personnel from other pub- the number of them were for help Woman forced into flesh trade lic security agencies. There were in critical cases, including road hardly any serious traffic snarls accidents. for shortage anywhere, as a result of hectic More than 55 people turned patrolling. up with heart-related complica- returns home, blows the whistle of abattoirs Some traffic accidents were tions—some of them complaining reported in the Sealine area in of severe to moderate chest pain. DOHA: A young Indian woman she was taken to Doha to work per person to sponsor visit DOHA: The Ministry of Mesaieed but, thankfully, there The helicopter services of the who was allegedly brought here as an ‘assistant beautician’ but visas. Many companies need- Municipality and Urban Planning were no casualties. In one inci- emergency unit was active too on a visit visa to be forced into was actually forced into the flesh ing workers like salesmen and is sitting pretty over a proposal dent, a motorcycle caught fire. and attended to three cases in prostitution blew the whis- trade. women or office staff tend to to build abattoirs in different An increasing number of different parts of the country tle on her captors after she She said she was taken back take the short cut and get the parts of the country for the past nationals has been calling on the after receiving calls for instant returned home. to Kochi and was put up in a workers here on tourist visas four years, Al Sharq reports quot- authorities to introduce tough assistance. She blew the lid off an alleged hotel as she was to be flown to provided by hotels. ing some unnamed members of regulations on car and motorcycle THE PENINSULA sex racket claiming that she was Singapore because “her captors These visas are then changed the public representative body, now being taken to Singapore as didn’t get enough business in by the companies into work visas. Central Municipal Council (CMC). “there wasn’t enough business Doha”. According to sources, employ- There was chaos at the abat- in Doha”. At the hotel in Kochi, the ers are forced to resort to such toirs of the Central Livestock Wedding celebrations at Corniche The 28-year-old woman hailed woman narrated her woes to a means because several major Market (that are managed and from India’s southern Kerala state room boy who alerted his bosses manpower exporting countries operated by Qatar Meat and that sends the largest number of following which the police were have made recruitment proce- Livestock Company popularly Indians to Qatar and the rest of informed. The cops took three dures quite time-consuming and known as Mawashi) on the first the GCC region. persons into custody and charged cumbersome. day of Eid Al Adha on Friday Critics here say Qatari authori- them with running a sex racket, “It normally takes three months because the few slaughterhouses ties must issue visit visas for Malayala Manorama online to get a salesman or woman or there are not able to cope with the young single women from any reported yesterday. technician, for example from huge rush for slaughtering sheep nationality only after doubly veri- The woman said she was mar- certain countries due to lengthy for sacrifice, the daily said. fying their credentials. ried and had three children. Her documentation and approval pro- Quoting CMC members, the “The incident involving the husband is a menial worker and cedures. Qatar is not to blame for daily added that the Council had Indian woman underlines the that she was lured into the Doha such delays. four years ago forwarded rec- need for a strict visit visa regime ‘assignment’ since she needed Companies can hardly afford to ommendations to the municipal for single foreign women like it money to treat her eldest son wait for so long and so take the minister for building abattoirs existed earlier,” said a Qatari who is suffering from some seri- hotel route which is so simple,” said across the country so as to pre- community elder not wanting his ous cardiac ailment. the critic. vent crowds descending on the name in print Critics, meanwhile, also These workers don’t actually central market slaughterhouses The Indian woman was, inci- stress the need for the Qatari stay at the hotels and the lat- during festivals like Eid Al Adha. An Egyptian couple took advantage of the Eid Al Adha celebrations at dentally, brought here on a three- authorities to put some restric- ter levy charges only for help- The proposal was approved but the Corniche to celebrate their wedding with friends and relatives. A month visit visa as an ‘assistant tions on the tourist visas issued ing issue tourist visas, he added. the Ministry of Municipality and number of families who came to celebrate the holidays also joined the beautician’ and was promised that to young single women of differ- “Some monitoring is required, Urban Planning has been sitting she would be allowed to travel ent nationalities at the behest especially if a tourist visa is pretty over it and no steps have party. The bride, Maha Al Awadi, who works with the Al Maha Academy, back home at the end of her visa’s of hotels. being issued to a young single been taken even to identify plots of and the bridegroom Ubaid Zaki , a civil engineer, expressed their joy validity. Hotels charge anywhere woman,” said a resident. land for the purpose, said the daily. at being able to celebrate their wedding on an Eid day in Qatar, which The woman told the police between QR700 and QR1,000 THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA they consider as their second home, Al Sharq reported. Syria bombards cities Saudi king for UN action against religious insults Alarming rise in crimes: QSA BEIRUT: Forces loyal to Syrian MINA: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah President Bashar Al Assad bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia yesterday demanded a UN resolution DOHA: A recent report released foreign workforce to the country, the world,” said the report. renewed their bombardment of condemning insults on monotheistic religions after a low-budget by the Qatar Statistics Authority adding that the upward trend could Another reason cited by the major cities yesterday and rebels film produced in the US sparked deadly protests last month. has drawn attention to an alarm- continue in the coming years, with report is the development in the launched several attacks, further “I demand a UN resolution that condemns any country or group that ing rise in crime rates in the the 2020 FIFA World Cup expected techniques used by criminals, undermining holiday truce. insults religions and prophets,” he said during a meeting at his palace country over the past 10 years. to attract more foreign workers. “that were not common or known A car bomb went off in front with religious figures and heads of Haj delegations in the Mina valley The number of crimes registered “It is difficult to explain the previously by the Qatari society.” of a Christian church in Deir Al where pilgrims were performing final rituals of Haj. “It is our duty in the state increased seven times increase in crime rate in Qatar, “It is more likely that crime Zor. Fighter jets bombed the sub- and that of every Muslim to protect Islam and defend the prophets.” over this period, from 320 (per which until recently, was enjoying rates will continue to increase, urbs of Erbin and Harasta.