ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 7 January 2013 25 Safar 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5572 Price: QR2 Meeza signs Mike Hussey pact with ends Test Symantec career Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Arabic media lap up India rape story Flow of Arab tourists may be hit BY MOBIN PANDIT agrees to it, Sunday People, said at the end of Pandey’s interview. DOHA: The Arabic media have And that explains why the vic- lapped up the hair-raising story tim’s identity wasn’t disclosed of the Indian gang rape vic- so far. tim in a big way after a British Saudi Arabia’s Al Yaum daily newspaper disclosed yesterday carried Reuters’ Arabic report in her name and published her its online edition yesterday, while father’s interview. the UAE’s famous daily Al Bayan London-based pan-Arab daily took the story in full. Sharq Alawsat said, quoting ana- Kuwait’s alanba.com took the lysts and commentators, that it story directly from Sunday People. was afraid the horrific incident Other websites that published may prove to be the ‘Arab Spring excerpts from the interview of India’ as far as women’s rights included the UAE-based emara- were concerned. talyoum.com and skynews.com, also Independent analysts told this from the UAE. newspaper that the wide cover- As for the rest of the Arab age of the gruesome rape and world, the incident is being high- murder of a young woman might lighted in several key newspapers H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser with TAMUQ Dean and CEO Dr Mark H Weichold at a gala to mark the tenth anniversary of the university in the country. affect the flow of health tourists in Egypt, including Al Ahram. (MAHER ATTAR) to Indian from the Arab world. Egyptian news websites youm7. Many in the Arab world send com and moheet.com carried the their young daughters to India for translated version of Sunday higher education, but that may People interview almost in full. change now, said the analyst on The much-famed London- TAMUQ celebrates a decade in Qatar grounds of anonymity. based Al Hayat, quoting Sunday The father of the rape victim, People, also put the story on its DOHA: Texas A & M University event at the Qatar National students of today and tomorrow University in Qatar. This includes Badri Singh Pandey, 53, mean- online edition and so did the in Qatar (TAMUQ) yesterday Convention Centre. to rise to the challenge enshrined the first graduates from the while, told Sunday People, the online editions of Egypt’s Al Wafd marked a decade of its pres- The resolution outlined how in this resolution,” she added. Master’s programme in chemi- Sunday edition of The Mirror, that and Kuwait’s Al Rai dailies, aside ence in the country, in the pres- engineering students at Tamuq TAMUQ celebrated its cal engineering. Texas A&M in he wanted the world to know that from Algerian website djazair- ence of H H Sheikha Moza bint would help develop solutions to 10th anniversary with the Qatar is educating engineers who his daughter’s name was Jyoti news.com. Nasser. problems that prevent children theme ‘Engineering a World of are contributing to Qatar’s devel- Singh Pandey as that will give Sharq Alawsat, the pan-Arab The varsity, which has pro- from getting education, and sup- Difference’ in the presence of H opment and will lead the next courage to other women who have daily published from London, duced 300 engineers, entered into port ‘Educate a Child Initiative,’ E Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, generation of discovery in Qatar’s survived such attacks. like Al Hayat, with an online edi- a partnership by presenting a res- which aims to significantly reduce Minister of Industry and Energy; knowledge-based economy,” said Online editions of several GCC- tion, said yesterday that the hor- olution to Sheikha Moza support- worldwide the number of children Dr Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, Al Sada in his speech. based newspapers as well as sev- rific incident has led many young ing her newly-launched ‘Educate who have no right to education. President of Hamad bin Khalifa “Texas A&M in Qatar should eral independent news websites women in India to get training in a Child Initiative’ launched in “This resolution… sums up the University; Dr Boween Loftin, be proud of its many accomplish- were the first in the Arab world self-defence. November. essence of all that Education City President of TAMUQ, and other ments in its first 10 years, and our to pick up the story after BBC Scared after reading the news, “We have entered into a new is about — equipping our young dignitaries. The campus, which partnership in the decade to come Arabic and Reuters’ Arabic serv- a Doha-based Eritrean, Mohamed level of partnership with this people with the skills and knowl- has been offering engineering will surely bring greater opportu- ice quoted extensively from the Osman, said he was thinking of resolution,” said Sheikha Moza, edge to be global citizens and ena- degree programmes from 2003, nities to strengthen our collabora- interview. sending his young daughter to accepting a copy of the engi- bling them to make the world a has an alumni with a number of tions, our exchange of knowledge Indian laws prohibit naming India for higher education. “Now, neering resolution for ‘Educate better place,” said Sheikha Moza. chemical engineers. “From 2007, and mutual pursuit for greater a rape victim unless she author- I will not.” THE PENINSULA a Child Initiative’ from Dr Mark “Through education, any- more than 300 Aggie engineers good,” he added. ises it or, if she is dead, her family Continued on page 5 Weichold, Dean, Tamuq, at an thing is possible. I look to Aggie have graduated from Texas A&M THE PENINSULA Abbas orders State of Palestine Adamant Assad blasts rebels Housemaid gets a passports, stamps DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in year in jail for theft RAMALLAH: Palestinian a rare speech denounced the president Mahmoud Abbas opposition yesterday as “slaves” DOHA: In an incident that switched off. A complaint was gave orders yesterday for work of the West and called for exposes the risk of hiring lodged with the police accusing to begin on new passports, national dialogue to draft a new domestic helps for temporary the maid of stealing jewellery ID cards, drivers’ licences charter and pave the way for jobs, a criminal court has sen- worth QR19,000. and stamps reading “State of legislative polls. tenced a housemaid to one year During police investigation, the Palestine,” official media said. Outlining a reconciliation in jail for stealing gold jewellery maid confessed to the crime and The decree, carried by the offi- plan aimed at resolving Syria’s from the house of an expatriate admitted to selling the jewellery cial WAFA news agency, came in 21-month conflict which accord- in which she was working as a to a shop for QR4,500, with the the wake of the Palestinians’ suc- ing to the UN has claimed more cleaner. help of two Asians staying in her cessful bid late last year for non- than 60,000 lives, Assad called on The maid committed the crime apartment complex. member observer state status at foreign powers to end their sup- with the help of four Asians. The fourth convict was the hus- the United Nations over intense port for rebels seeking to topple The court has slapped a fine of band of the housemaid who was Israeli and US opposition. his regime. QR1,000 each on the four Asians fined for not informing the police Abbas said the changed lan- “Regional and international for helping the housemaid in sell- about the theft despite having guage on official documents would countries must stop funding the ing the jewellery and ordered the knowledge of the incident. help strengthen the Palestinian armed men to allow those dis- housemaid to be deported after The fifth and last convict was state “on the ground and build its placed to return to their homes,” serving the jail term, Al Sharq the jewellery shop owner who institutions... and its sovereignty Assad said to wild applause from reported yesterday. was fined for purchasing the gold over its land.” crowds packed into the Dar Al The expatriate hired the house- without permission from the Already last week, he ordered Assad Centre for Culture and One of a series of five convoys carrying Patriot missiles makes its way on maid, who was to be paid on an police that is necessary for sell- the Foreign Ministry and embas- Arts in Damascus. a freeway in Sanitz, northern Germany, yesterday. The missiles are to be hourly basis, with the help of a ing jewellery. sies around the world to begin “Right after that our military transported to Turkey as part of a Nato deployment in view of the threat security guard of his residential The shop owner tried to jus- using “State of Palestine” in offi- operations will cease,” he said, perception from the Syrian regime. compound. She worked for only tify his act saying he bought the cial correspondence. Previously, adding without elaborating that four days at his house and the last jewellery after the housemaid official documents issued by a mechanism to monitor such a “We will dialogue with (those national dialogue conference, he day she finished work by 3:30pm pleaded with him and said that Abbas’s government, including truce would be established.