ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Pakistan take charge against New Zealand Sport | 26 Tuesday 11 November 2014 • 18 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6246 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir gets message from Iran Aide to IS Commercial leader killed near Falluja registration BAGHDAD: An aide to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been killed in an air strike near the city of Falluja, Iraqi state television rules changed reported yesterday. State television identified the man as Abu Huthaifa Al Yamani. It did not say when the Minister gets more powers strike took place or give further details. It was not immediately DOHA: A law passed yester- a year under the new law. It must possible to confirm the death or day empowers the Minister of be renewed within 30 days after The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a written message from President of Iran Hassan whether Yamani was an aide to Economy and Commerce to expiry and the renewal will also Rowhani pertaining to bilateral relations and issues of common interest. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Baghdadi. accept or reject a request for be only for a year. Zanganeh handed over the message at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Iraqi security officials have not commercial registration (CR) Under the previous law a CR confirmed the death. of a business and his decision is could be issued or renewed for one The Pentagon said yesterday it to be final and cannot be chal- year or five years. could not corroborate reports that lenged in a court of law. A company must inform the Baghdadi had been either killed or The previous law that has department if a head or heads wounded in Iraq, acknowledging been amended gave the appli- roll in its board of directors or if Common toll-free number, conflicting media reports from the cant the right to move the court it is dissolved. region. “We do not have any infor- if the economy minister rejected The present law which has mation to corroborate reports out his request for Commercial come into force right after being of Iraq that Baghdadi has been Registration (licensing) of a issued and is to be published in the call centre for taxis soon either killed or wounded,” Colonel business. official gazette has done away with Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokes- The department responsible a month’s jail term for not using DOHA: All taxis in Qatar will He said even after the new customers,” said the official. man, told reporters. for commercial registration of the registered name of a business soon have a unified call cen- number is launched, the private The new call centre will also The contradictory accounts a business (now named admin- on sign boards and letter heads tre facility and a single toll taxi companies will be allowed to enable more effective monitoring from Iraq followed US air strikes istrative unit, which was earlier and other official documents. free number to be operated by retain their independent numbers of the movement of taxis as well on Friday night. known as commercial affairs It has rather increased the the public transport company for a while. “They may be allowed as the performance of drivers. Islamic State, which swept department) of the ministry has maximum fine that was QR10,000 Mowasalat. to use their own numbers for a Apparently all operators would through northern Iraq in June to reply to an application for CR earlier, to QR50,000. The new toll free number limited period but eventually they be linked to the unified call centre virtually unopposed by the Iraqi the same day. The previous law specified a 800TAXI (8008294) will be will be required to adopt the com- and allowed to track and monitor army, has declared a caliphate in The department must also cite month’s prison term or a fine of launched shortly, a Mowasalat mon number,” said the official. their own vehicles independently. the parts of Iraq and Syria it con- the reason if an application for QR10,000 or both for the above official has disclosed. Once the unified call centre The official said that new trols. Falluja is an Islamic State CR is being rejected. The econ- violation. Besides Karwa, four private becomes fully operational, all advanced meters are also being stronghold to the west of Baghdad omy minister can be approached And a CR holder misusing it companies are now operating requests for taxis will be handled installed in taxis to prevent tam- in the Sunni Muslim heartland within 30 days with a plea to or allowing its misuse by others taxis based on a franchise agree- by this centre through the com- pering by drivers. we Anbar Province. review the decision. will be liable to a jail term of up ment with Mowasalat. The newly mon toll free number. The new Currently, about 3,500 taxis The United States and its allies However, if he rejects the plea to six months or a fine of up to launched taxis are using the sophisticated call centre will also are on the roads operated by launched a barrage of attacks no appeal can be filed either QR200,000. Mowasalat call centre number change the current system of Karwa and the four private com- against Islamic State over the before him or in a court, says the The previous law specified a jail while the other companies have booking taxis. panies — Al Million, Al Ijarah, weekend, conducting 23 air strikes new law. term of a maximum of six months independent toll free numbers. Once a request for a taxi is Ibin Ajayan Trading Group and in Syria and 18 in Iraq against the The law, Number 20 of 2014, and a fine of up to only QR50,000 “The idea is to integrate all made, the call centre, using the Profit Group. All the taxis operate militant group since Friday, US was issued by the Emir, H H for the above breach. these numbers, under our uni- GPS system, will track the near- under the Karwa brand and fol- Central Command said. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al The court will have the right to fied call centre. We are currently est taxi available and ask the low the standards and tariffs set In Iraq, seven strikes hit near Thani, amending some provisions suspend a CR for up to a year if doing a trial run and the unified driver to go to that customer. by Mowasalat. Taxis belonging Baiji and others in or near Falluja, of Law No 25 of 2005 regulating forged documents are furnished call centre facility is expected to “It does not matter which com- to different companies are identi- Mosul, Al Qaim, Haditha, Ramadi commercial registration (CR), to obtain it, or for tampering with become fully operational by year- pany the taxi belongs to. The pur- fied mainly through their distinct and Rutba. QNA reported. a CR, says the law. end,” the official told this daily pose of the centre is to provide roof-colour. REUTERS The validity of a CR will be for THE PENINSULA yesterday. faster and better service to the THE PENINSULA See also page 10 UAE pulls out of Israeli woman, soldier World Handball Championships killed in knife attacks BASEL, Switzerland: The JERUSALEM: An Israeli identified the suspected assailant, United Arab Emirates has woman and a soldier were killed who was arrested, as a resident joined Bahrain in pulling out of in Palestinian knife attacks in of the occupied West Bank who the 2015 men’s World Handball the West Bank and Tel Aviv was in Israel illegally and had not Championships in Qatar in an yesterday, extending a surge in previously been arrested. apparent political boycott. violence fuelled by strife over Hours later, a Palestinian The International Handball access to Jerusalem’s holiest stormed out of a car to stab three Federation announced the latest site. people outside the Jewish settle- withdrawal yesterday without Prime Minister Benjamin ment of Alon Shvut in the West giving a reason. Bahrain’s boycott Netanyahu pledged to crush “ter- Bank, killing the woman and was announced last Friday. The ror being directed at all parts of wounding two other people, police 24-nation tournament is sched- the country” - remarks appear- said. The attacker was shot and uled to start in Doha on January ing to clash with Israeli security wounded by a guard. 15. chiefs’ assertions that the tumult The Islamic Jihad claimed him The UAE and Bahrain qualified did not yet spell a new Intifada, as its member and an Israeli secu- nine months ago. The IHF said or Palestinian revolt. rity official said he had been jailed in a statement its ruling council The first incident, the soldier’s in Israel between 2000 and 2005 will deal with the withdrawals at stabbing at a Tel Aviv train sta- for a petrol bomb attack. a November 21 meeting. AP Palestinian girls light candles near the tomb of Yasser Arafat during a rally on the eve of the 10th anniversary of tion, brought bloodshed to the REUTERS his death in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. Suicide blast kills 47 Israeli commercial capital. Police See also page 7 students in Nigeria KANO: A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber dis- guised in school uniform What’s in a name? It can break up your marriage killed 47 students in northeast Nigeria yesterday, in one of the DOHA: Some Qatari marriages The idea is to check the alarm- husband opposes it.