ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 7 August 2013 29 Ramadan 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5784 Price: QR2 QE emerges as Sri Lanka heavyweight in retain T20 GCC markets top ranking Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Crisis talks in Egypt Banks to close Qatar Charity for Eid holidays from tomorrow raises QR20m DOHA: Banks will have official Eid Al Fitr holi- days for five days beginning tomorrow, but from the sec- ond day of Eid some of their for Syrians branches will be open during their normal weekday work- ing hours. In the evenings, some Citizen donates 10,000 tonnes of wheat banks’ branches in shopping centres will be open from 5pm DOHA: A Qatari philanthro- participated in the campaign. to 9pm on the second and pist has donated through Doha- This was the first time QC opened third days of Eid. On the first based charitable organisation, a campaign for donors outside day of Eid all banks and their RAF, 10,000 tonnes of wheat Qatar. branches will be closed. flour for Syrian refugees, while The campaign will be used The banks have filled up Qatar Charity (QC) has raised to fund new relief projects in their ATM networks with QR20m within two hours of Syria and implement established cash — all of them have put live broadcast via Aljazeera projects, meeting a variety of new and crisp currency bills Mubasher (Direct) as part of needs for Syrians inside and out- of various denominations on their 10-day relief campaign for side the country, including food, the occasion of Eid. the refugees. shelter, education, healthcare and Called “Syria… Pain and education. Supporters of Egypt’s deposed president Mohammed Mursi hold up his portraits during a protest in the Hope”, QC’s campaign had a live QC has already spent QR100m Mediterranean city of Alexandria yesterday. Foreign envoys mounted new efforts to find a way out of the MoI departments broadcast at 11pm on Monday for relief of around 600,000 crippling political crisis sparked by the army’s ouster of Mursi. See also page 7 and within two hours it col- Syrians since the conflict broke to remain open lected QR20m, a large chunk of out. the fund was donated by Qatari Around 60 percent of the during Eid Al Fitr philanthropists. projects have benefited people dis- The campaign was also broad- placed within Syria, while the rest DOHA: The Immigration cast internationally in 25 televi- were directed to Syrian refugees 100 free furnished homes for Department and vari- sion channels and radio stations. in the neighbouring countries. ous service centres of the Held at Aljazeera Centre for Donations outside Qatar can Ministry of Interior (MoI) Training and Development, the be made through the interna- newly married Qatari couples will function during the Eid event saw the participation of a tional account 003-111111-001, Al Al Fitr holidays. number of Islamic scholars and Rayan Bank, Qatar, Swift Code The General Directorate officials from Qatar Charity. MAFRQAQAXXX. DOHA: A charitable body is homes and will be given for free after marriage or share the family of Border Passports QC CEO Yousef bin Ahmed Al Donations can also be made building 100 homes that it would to stay initially for two years to home of the groom. and Expatriate Affairs Kuwari stressed the importance online through qcharity.org/ also be furnishing to be given newly-married Qatari couples,” Problems arise in both the (Immigration Department), of the international campaign set syria which is available in Arabic, away to newly-married Qatari Ayed Al Qahtani, RAF’s director- cases, for a rented house leads to Nationality and Travel to help 10 million Syrian refugees English and French. QR300 could couples free for two years. general told Al Sharq’s Ramadan heavy expenses that put the hus- Documents Department, and displaced Syrians. also be donated through SMS RAF said the plans are still tent recently. band under tremendous finan- Traffic Department, Criminal Al Kuwari said QC took by sending the word SYRIA via at the table and will likely to be He said the housing project cial strains as, in most cases, he Evidences and Information advantage of the last 10 days of Ooredoo to 92060 or via Vodafone finalised by year-end. would be located in Al Wukair in has already taken bank loans to Department and the Ministry's Ramadan to urge philanthropists to 97289. The charity said the financial Al Wakra. finance his marriage. services centres will work from to donate for the Syrian refugees, Donations can also be made situation of the beneficiaries of He didn’t elaborate further but And in the case of sharing their 8am to 12 noon on all days who are suffering from lack of at collecting points in commer- the scheme would be reviewed the rate of divorce in the Qatari family’s home, day-to-day inter- from August 6 to August 15. food, shelter, education, medicine cial complexes and QC branches after two years and a decision community is quite high and it ference from family members and Traffic Investigation sec- and healthcare. across Qatar, by calling the would be taken whether to let is understood that a major factor restrictions on the wife’s mobil- tions will be working 24 hours He thanked all the donors, 24-hour hotline 44667711 or them continue staying in the behind marital woes of newly- ity creates unwanted tension during the holidays, said a the Islamic scholars, television electronically. homes for free. wed couples is that they have to between the newly-wed couple. statement issued by the min- channels and radio stations that THE PENINSULA “These would all be furnished either move into a rented house THE PENINSULA istry yesterday. THE PENINSULA Diving into floodwaters Rebels hit Assad’s Alawite stronghold US reporter ‘has huge’ AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian Islamist rebels have killed around 200 people in a three- cache of Snowden files day offensive in the moun- tain stronghold of President BRASILIA: Brazil-based people. But the reality is that Bashar Al Assad’s Alawite sect American reporter Glenn there are many documents which and driven hundreds of vil- Greenwald yesterday said that have nothing to do with terror- lagers to seek refuge on the he had received more than ism or national security, but Mediterranean coast, activists 15,000 secret US government have to do with competition with said yesterday. Since launch- documents from intelligence other countries, in the business, ing the surprise assault, the leaker Edward Snowden. industrial and economic fields,” mainly Islamist rebel brigades Greenwald, who revealed Greenwald said. led by two Qaeda-linked groups details of Washington’s vast elec- Referring to the XKeyscore have captured half a dozen vil- tronic surveillance programme secret surveillance system alleg- lages on the northern edges of in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, edly used by NSA to moni- the Alawite mountain range, the gave no details of the content of tor Internet traffic, he said activists say. Full report on page 10 the files as he testified before the Washington was collecting not Brazilian Senate’s foreign rela- just metadata, “but also the con- tions committee. tent of emails and what is being India-Pakistan ties hit “I did not do an exact count, discussed in telephone conversa- An Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river but he gave me 15,000, 20,000 tions. It is a powerful program as five soldiers killed in Allahabad yesterday. The monsoon, which covers the subcontinent from June to September and usually documents. Very, very complete which frightens.” brings flooding, accounts for about 80 percent of India’s annual rainfall. and very long,” Greenwald said, Greenwald explained last SRINAGAR: India said a group responding to questions from month that Snowden person- of militants from Pakistan lawmakers. ally handed him the documents killed five of its soldiers in an “The stories we have published in Hong Kong, where the former ambush along the disputed bor- are a small portion. There will NSA contractor temporarily took der in Kashmir yesterday, an certainly be more revelations on refuge, after fleeing the US. accusation that threatens to Rowhani ready for talks with US the espionage activities of the The Brazilian O Globo maga- derail efforts to resume peace US government and allied gov- zine carried stories alleging that talks. Full report on page 14 TEHRAN: President Hassan allay Western concerns. “As the constructive approach in the pro- ernments ... on how they have Washington maintained a spy Rowhani said yesterday that president of the Islamic repub- tracted talks. The hardline poli- penetrated the communications centre in Brasilia which was part Iran was ready for “serious” lic, I am announcing that there is cies of his predecessor, Mahmoud systems of Brazil and Latin of a network of 16 such facilities RAMADAN TIMING talks on its nuclear programme the political will to solve this issue Ahmadinejad, prompted crippling America,” he said. around the world to intercept for- Today’s Iftar without delay and that US calls and also take into consideration EU and US sanctions against He added that he could not eign satellite transmissions. 6:18pm for tougher sanctions showed a the concerns of the other sides,” Iran’s oil and banking sectors that give more details on the docu- Last month, US Vice President lack of understanding. he said. he has vowed to seek to relax. ments because an investigation of Joe Biden called Brazilian Tomorrow’s Imsak Addressing his first news Rowhani headed Iran’s nuclear Rowhani said there could Snowden is under way in the US.