ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Barzan Gas to Prime Minister start in first meets handball quarter of 2015 organising panel Business | 17 Sport | 28 Thursday 4 September 2014 • 9 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6178 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Kerry building Stop crackdown, say villa owners global coalition Call to form special committee to inspect partitioned villas and spare those meeting standards to fight Islamist DOHA: The owners of illegally illegal expansion has been done which is scarce, he said. Owner families, as also expatri- crackdown against partitioned militants partitioned villas want the gov- nor has any room been added,” The fact is that tens of thou- ate families, would be hard hit due villas. He said the crackdown had ernment to stop its crackdown, said Al Nuaimi. “The partitioning sands of limited-income expa- to the crackdown decision. “Civic come at a wrong time — at a time WASHINGTON: Top US diplo- and act only against those vil- has been done in such a way that triate families are living in the officials must also make sure that when the population has been mat John Kerry revealed yester- las that endanger the lives of it doesn’t threaten tenants’ safety.” country and they can’t afford to they don’t act on malicious com- rising and demand for housing is day that he was working to forge occupants. He said the area’s municipal take independent houses on rent plaints,” he said. going up and there is shortage of a global coalition to fight the Most partitioned villas are old authorities didn’t notice the par- due to skyrocketing rent prices, Hamad bin Khalfan Al Kuwari, affordable housing. “medieval savagery” of Islamist houses of Qataris who have built titioning but someone jealous of said Al Nuaimi. agreeing with Al Nuaimi, said He said it is actually an old law militants terrorising a swathe new residences in the near and him tipped them off and he was He said a special committee that an independent committee which is being enforced but it of Syria and Iraq and blamed for far-off suburbs and moved. served a notice to get it vacated should be set up to inspect the should assess each partitioned should be implemented in phases killing two journalists. So these villas are a source of in a week. partitioned villas and spare those villa and its safety and then action (from six months to a year) and As US President Barack additional income for them, and “I have been warned by civic that meet standards and remove should be taken. occupant families should be given Obama called for an international simultaneously provide affordable inspectors that if the villa is not those that are dangerous. “The Abdullah Al Anzi said that the sufficient time to move from ille- front against the group known as housing to limited-income expa- vacated within a week I would government needs to be discreet.” partitioned villas have actually gally partitioned villas. the Islamic State (IS), US offi- triate families. be punished,” Al Nuaimi told Al Al Nuaimi said that before solved the shortage of affordable These are the times of economic cials also revealed that two videos A Qatari, Rashid Al Nuaimi, Sharq. Limited-income expatri- launching the crackdown the housing amidst skyrocketing rents boom and a boom does throw up showing the beheadings of Steven said that he owns two villas and ate families are living in this authorities should have conducted of independent accommodations. some challenges. Housing is one of Sotloff and James Foley were not one of them, located in Al Khaisa villa so they need to be given a survey and assessed the impact Financial expert Abdullah Al those and it must be confronted filmed at the same time. area, is illegally partitioned. sufficient time to move as they it would have on Qatari as well as Khater said that villa prices had with wisdom, said Al Khater. “The real face of Islam is not “The villa is partitioned but no must look for affordable housing limited-income expatriate families. gone up after the government’s THE PENINSULA what we saw yesterday, when the world bore witness again to the unfathomable brutality of ISIL terrorist murders,” the US sec- Iraq unrest retary of state told a ceremony to honour the new special US envoy to Muslim communities. Students skipping Kerry called the 31-year-old Sotloff “a driven and courageous journalist,” saying he was killed by a “coward hiding behind a mask.” classes face action Having worked to try to bring Sotloff home safely, Kerry said DOHA: Faced with a high schools in the new academic year. his murder so soon on the heels rate of absenteeism in some Another 22 new schools will of Foley’s beheading last month Independent schools, the open in the next academic year was “a punch to the gut”. Supreme Education Council in different parts of the country, “The face of Islam is not the (SEC) has initiated tough he added. butchers that killed Steven action against students skip- The SEC has put a 10 percent Sotloff. That’s ISIL. It’s not ping classes frequently. cap on fee hike for private schools. masked cowards, whose actions From this academic year However, some schools with a are an ugly insult to the peace- students without the required very low fee structure have been ful religion that they violate every attendance will not be allowed to allowed to raise their fees by up single day with their barbarity,” he sit for final exams, the Minister of to 25 percent, said the Minister. insisted. “The real face of Islam is Education and Higher Education Permission to increase the fees a peaceful religion, based on the H E Dr Mohammed Abdul Wahed has been given based on a scien- dignity of all human beings.” Ali Al Hammadi said yesterday. tific assessment system, he added. Kerry said he would travel fur- “Attendance of some students “Some schools have been given ther afield in the coming days seek- is very low, therefore we decided an exception to increase their fees ing to win support for the coalition. to punish those who have failed to by up to 25 percent only if they In a rush of telephone diplomacy, achieve the required attendance had a very low fee structure ear- he spoke on Tuesday with counter- level, without acceptable reasons,” lier,” said Dr Al Hammadi. Iraqi Shia militia fighters fire a rocket at Islamic State (IS) militant positions at Sayed Hassan village outside the parts from Australia, Italy, Jordan, said Dr Al Hammadi. A new law has been drafted to city of Tikrit yesterday. A significant number of Islamic State group fighters have withdrawn from northern Iraqi Qatar, and the UAE. AFP See also pages 6, 7 & 10 He said 15 new private schools amend the education voucher sys- cities, after government forces launched a major ground and air offensive, officials in Tikrit and Mosul said. and seven new branches of the tem for Qatari students in private existing private schools are ready schools. Educational voucher is an to open for the new academic amount of money allocated by the year, which begins next Sunday. state to Qatari students to cover The new schools include six all or part of the cost of study at Qatari, four Indian, two British, private schools included the edu- two American and a Finnish school. cational voucher system. Torturous wait for taxis as traffic crawls “All (new) schools are ready for A new document will be soon opening except two Independent issued to regulate the conduct of BY YASIN ABU TAQIU by the time he was picked up by during the morning hours but some reaching to most areas and every school Kindergartens, which have the academic and non academic a taxi he was feeling dizzy. residents have complained that this one without a car has to use a postponed their opening until staff in the educations sector. DOHA: As vacationers return “All my clothes were soaked scarcity has extended even up to taxi,” said Salah Abdul Swamad beginning of October,” said Dr Al An assessment system for school to the city and schools resume in in sweat and every 10 minutes I the mid-day and afternoon hours. a resident of Mattar Al Qadem Hammadi, speaking at a press con- administrators too will be intro- a few days, commuters who use would go to the neighbouring gro- Residents also complained that area. “The cabbies know people ference yesterday. duced soon. taxis are also being hit by the traf- cery to feel some cold air from amid the scarcity, most taxi drivers have no option but to use their “We began to expand “As we started disciplinary edu- fic snarls and many are waiting for their air conditioners and also where choosing to use the meter or overpriced taxis especially when Independent and private schools cation for students last year, this longer hours in the morning and take some water to replenish my not depending on the passenger or it is hot and you cannot wait for to meet the increasing demand year we will introduce a similar evening without a taxi in sight. body,” he said. the distance of the trip. long to get a fair bargain.” from an increasing population,” system for the staff to enhance Residents are complaining that “What is annoying is that there In longer distances, they would A Nepalese franchised taxi he added.