ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Inflation rate expected to touch 5.5pc Business | 17 Thursday 23 October 2014 • 29 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6227 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sheikha Moza visits Ottoman Archives Full autonomy IDs to feature for NHRC DOHA: The State Cabinet yes- terday approved a draft law that provides full autonomy to the National Human Rights residential Committee (NHRC), the coun- try’s rights watchdog. The draft law amends a number of provisions of Law no. 17 of 2001 on regulating the NHRC. address soon According to the draft law, NHRC enjoys full autonomy in exercising its activities related to Cabinet approves draft decision human rights. Criminal or disciplinary action DOHA: The Qatari identity ministry’s draft decision approved cannot be taken against any (ID) card for citizens as well by the Cabinet yesterday it is member for opinions or state- as expatriates may soon begin obvious that it is now going to ments presented before the com- featuring residential addresses enforce the law quite seriously,” mittee and its subcommittees in of the holder for security and he added. matters within their competence. other reasons. Not having records of expatri- THE PENINSULA The State Cabinet yesterday ates’ physical addresses creates approved a draft decision of the problems related to security as interior minister that specifies also for the judiciary, according Irish senate nod what personal information of the to Al Suwaidi. H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser visiting the new Ottoman Archives Centre in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. holder is to be put on his ID card. In court cases, summons is (Report on page 3) MAHER ATTAR for Palestine The draft also talks of the doc- issued with police help and the uments to be produced and pro- police find it difficult to trace the DUBLIN: Ireland’s upper cedures to be taken to procure address of an expatriate involved house of parliament yesterday an ID card, Qatar News Agency since there is no official record passed a motion calling on the (QNA) reported. of his address. Also, in Qatar, the Dublin government to recog- According to a prominent law- exact location of their homes, many GCC plans changes in school nise the state of Palestine in a yer, there already is a law that people are not aware of, said the symbolic move that is unlikely makes it mandatory for people to lawyer. to change policy. notify the police of their postal as “If you call emergency number The vote is the latest boost for well as physical addresses. 999, the only thing they ask you is curricula to fight extremism Palestinian authorities campaign- And every time a Qatari or where you stay and you normally ing for international recognition, expatriate changes his residence stammer struggling to explain. DOHA: The GCC states are sectarianism among their youth thinking can be encouraged coming after a similar vote by the he must notify the police, said the “Most probably, you don’t know mulling making suitable through school education was the among the youth, Dr Khalid Al British House of Commons and lawyer, Mohsin Thiyab Al Suwaidi. the street name and number. But changes to their school cur- priority of the GCC countries. Rasheed said. Sweden’s decision to recognise a However, while Qataris do not once your ID card has details of ricula to prevent youth from Dr Khalid Al Rasheed, “Our youth must renounce Palestinian state. change their residence frequently the location where you stay, you being influenced by religious Undersecretary at Kuwait’s violence and hard-line thinking The motion called on the “gov- and intimate the police if they do, could tell your address. extremism and sectarian Ministry of Education, said and start believing in peaceful ernment to formally recognise expatriates normally don’t. “This is an additional advantage movements. that education ministers from co-existence and prosperity,” he the state of Palestine and do eve- Also, since most Qataris live of having your address written on Also, the education ministry’s the GCC states meeting in his added. rything it can to help secure a in their own homes, the govern- your ID card,” Al Suwaidi said. permission will be needed if stu- country have discussed the above GCC secretary-general Dr viable two-state solution to the ment has their whereabouts in its “It is with this intention that dents of a school in any GCC state proposal. Abdul Lateef Al Zayani told the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so that record, which isn’t the case with the interior ministry is mulling are tasked with collecting dona- “The ministers were of the website that education must play citizens of both states can live in most expatriates. putting postal as well as physical tion for a civil society or any other view that school education should a positive role and help curb the peace and security.” It had cross- This is because the legislation address on a holder’s ID card.” cause. encourage moderate thinking tendency among the region’s party support and passed without that makes it binding on people The existing ID card issued to Saudi Arabia-based news web- amongst our youth,” Al Rasheed youth towards violence and a vote. to inform the police of address expatriates is meaningless since it site aliqtesadia.com reported yes- told aliqtesad.com on the sidelines extremism and inculcate such change isn’t enforced seriously, doesn’t carry either postal or phys- terday quoting a senior official of the ministerial conference. values in them that help them Al Suwaidi said. ical address of the holder, said the from Kuwait that waging a fight By making minor changes believe in peaceful co-existence. Jerusalem car “But from the interior lawyer. THE PENINSULA against terrorism, violence and in school curricula, moderate THE PENINSULA attack kills baby JERUSALEM: A Palestinian rammed a car into pedestrians Qatar reports in Jerusalem yesterday, killing a Tainted barbecue victim loses 25kg in few days baby and injuring six other peo- ple in what Israeli police said was second MERS a “hit-and-run terror attack”. DOHA: Poisoning from con- it is close to my accommodation. and all the way he was sweat- 25kg by this time. And I learnt It was the second such deadly case in 10 days taminated food served by a res- “On Friday, I went there with a ing out heavily. “Eventually, a that there were more than 20 incident in three months, taurant in Frij Klaib last Friday friend and had chicken barbecue friend took me to Hamad General people who suffered from food prompting Israeli Prime DOHA: A 43-year old Qatari was so severe that one victim at around 10pm. By noon the next Hospital emergency. When I poisoning after eating at the same Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tested positive for MERS reportedly lost 25kg during a day, I developed severe stomach explained the symptoms, the restaurant. Those responsible to immediately order an increase — Middle East Respiratory few days of his stay in hospital. pain followed by diarrhoea. I had doctor asked what type of food I should not go unpunished,” he in police presence across the city. Syndrome — in the second con- Sami Mahmoud told Al Sharq never experienced such intense had taken. He said I could be suf- said. Sources close to another vic- The driver, identified as a 21-year- firmed case of the deadly virus that he was a frequent visitor to diarrhoea in my life,” Al Sharq fering from food poisoning,” said tim said the latter’s two children, old from Silwan in east Jerusalem, in 10 days. Marmara Istanbul Restaurant, quoted him as saying. Mahmoud Mahmoud. He said he was kept in who were among the affected, was shot and wounded as he tried The patient had fever for a which has been closed by authori- said he was in his office at that the Intensive Care Unit for a few have not yet fully recovered from to flee, police spokeswoman Luba few days and was shifted to the ties following the incident. time, as he felt extremely tired days, until he was shifted to the the infection, although they were Samri said. His condition was mod- Emergency Department of the “I used to visit the restaurant at and his entire body was heating up. general ward. discharged from the hospital on erate-to-serious. AFP Hamad General Hospital, the least three times a week because He left for home to take rest “I discovered that I had lost Monday. THE PENINSULA See also page 11 Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said yesterday. After laboratory tests and medical assessment, he was diagnosed with pneumonia and subsequently confirmed MERS- Gunman storms Canadian COV case. Last week, the SCH reported the first MERS case of this year, parliament; soldier killed when a 71-year old Qatari was infected. OTTAWA: Gunfire echoed after the car attack, which came as The total number of confirmed through the Gothic halls of the Canadian jets were to join the US-led MERS cases in Qatar until now Canadian parliament yesterday air armada bombarding Islamist mil- has reached 11, of which five as police shot dead a gunman sus- itants in Iraq. victims- three Qataris and two pected of killing a soldier guard- Prime Minister Stephen Harper expatriates- died. SCH said yes- ing a nearby war memorial before warned that “facts are still being terday that the condition of the storming the building. gathered” but nevertheless “con- first patient has improved.