ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 6 February 2013 25 Rabial I 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5602 Price: QR2 Qatari bourse Spain ready for index adds Uruguay 22.48 points clash in Doha Business | 19 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Prescription must for Emir meets Mayor of Berlin 88,000 new vehicles hypothyroidism drug DOHA: Several patients using Eltroxin (levothyroxine), the most common drug to treat hypothyroidism, say they have hit the road last year been hit by a recent decision of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) making a prescription Death toll in traffic accidents falls to 204 mandatory to buy the medicine. SCH sources said that the DOHA: More than 88,000 new right of others on the road,” Brig decision was intended to prevent vehicles hit the road in Qatar Al Kharji said. a possible misuse or wrong use last year while the number of The department is also coor- of the medicine, which can cause new driver’s licences issued in dinating with the Public Works serious side effects. the year totalled 108,000, traf- Authority (Ashghal) to build tun- Excessive use of L-thyroxine fic department officials said nels and flyovers for pedestrian can lead to weight loss and seri- yesterday. crossings. Some 27.4 percent of ous health problems, including The number of new vehicles the victims of road accidents in irregular heartbeat, angina, heart registered in 2011 was 70,000 2012 were pedestrians. attack and a loss of bone mass. while about 105,000 driver’s “The Traffic Department will Full report on page 3 licences were issued in 2011. install radars to catch motorists Despite the surge in the crossing pedestrian signals”, the Three Kuwaiti ex-MPs number of new vehicles in 2012, director said. death toll in traffic accidents was particularly by young men, was He called on motorists to get prison sentences restricted to 204. the major cause of accidents. respect pedestrian crossings Traffic accidents dropped 9.5 “All necessary measures (zebra lines) and stop the vehicle KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti court percent in 2012 from the previous will be taken to deal with the if people are crossing. sentenced three former opposi- year, Brigadier Muhammed Saad issue. More radars will soon be Moreover, the Ministry’s strat- tion lawmakers to three years Al Kharji (pictured), Director of installed on highways and the egy for 2011 to 2016 is aimed at in jail yesterday for comments Traffic Department, said during distance between two radars will reducing the number of serious deemed offensive towards the his customary annual news brief- be reduced to 2 km from 4 km,” traffic accidents from 300 to 250 ruling Emir, the second such ing here yesterday. Brig Al Kharji said. per 100,000 people in the year conviction in three days. The number of pedestrians who To monitor motorists overtak- 2016, Col. Ibrahim Saad Al Sulaiti, The three ex-lawmakers — died in road mishaps also dropped ing from the right side, radars head of the Traffic Statistics Islamists Falah Al Sawwagh and last year to 56 from 61 in 2011 and have already been fixed on some Department, said. Bader Al Dahum, and populist a high of 74 in 2010. roads in Doha. He also added that the strategy Khaled Al Tahus — were arrested The majority of the victims of The director said that over- of the Ministry aims at reducing in October after an opposition- road accidents were men (90.1 taking from the right side to cut the number of pedestrian deaths led protest where riot police used percent), more than half of whom the traffic, in addition to being a annually to less than 17 percent teargas and stun grenades. Tens were non-Arab expatriates, while clear violation of the traffic law, of traffic deaths, according to glo- of thousands joined similar pro- 21.6 percent were Qataris and 19.6 is also very dangerous. “There is bal standards, and reducing the tests in October over changes to percent were Arab expatriates. also a moral side to this. A driver percentage of traffic deaths from an electoral law passed by the The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with Mayor of Berlin, Al Kharji said that over- should have high morals and he country’s total mortality by 10 per Emir. Full report on page 9 speeding and reckless driving, should not encroach upon the cent in 2016. THE PENINSULA Klaus Wowereit, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. The Emir heads to Egypt today to participate in the 12th Islamic Summit. Obama to visit Israel for first time soon WASHINGTON: US President Raid on unlicensed factory making fake cleaning products Barack Obama plans to soon make his first trip to Israel as US leader to confer on the BY SATISH KANADY Sanitizer”, “Disinfectant”, “Carpet products of poor quality. after the goods were found on the a licence. Inquiries in the mar- Iranian nuclear showdown Shampoo” , “Thick Bleach “ and The team raided eleven shelves of the retailer. The factory ket revealed that Qatar’s neigh- and to soothe his delicate rela- DOHA: The Consumer “Hand Wash”. The products branches of the popular retailer was violating all mandatory qual- bourhood shops stock many poor tionship with Prime Minister Protection Department has did not match the Consumer and confiscated a large quantity ity standards. The inspection team quality ‘cleaning products’. These Benjamin Netanyahu. swooped on an illegal factory Protection Department’s qual- of products that failed to display found the manufacturers using stores are mainly patronised by The White House said yes- making spurious and poor- ity standards, the Ministry of the mandatory information — sterilizing hand gels past their small contracting companies terday that Obama also plans quality cleaning products being Business and Trade, of which country of origin, production and expiry date to produce different involved in cleaning jobs and those to stop to talk to Palestinian sold by 11 outlets of a major the Consumer Protection expiry dates, which according to cleaning products. They were also supplying staff for the purpose. leaders in the West Bank and retailer in the country, officials Department is a part, said. the Ministry, violates article (7) of found recycling expired products Large quantities of cleaning solu- to travel to Jordan on his trip, said yesterday. The raids were part of the min- Law No (8) of 2008 on consumer with other ‘changing agents’ to tions, liquid detergents and laun- which will bring him close to The products seized from the istry’s inspection campaign in the protection. The raid on the factory make the merchandise. dry products are available in the the turmoil threatening to tear factory in Industrial Area and markets and commercial centres — that led to detergent and clean- Further inquiries revealed that ‘cheap market’, sources told The Syria apart. the outlets bore the labels “Hand to protect the consumers from ing products being seized — came the factory was operating without Peninsula. THE PENINSULA Full report on page 8 Trailer trouble Ahmadinejad gets a rap in first Egypt visit CAIRO: Iran’s President people have their place in the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was heart of the Iranian people.” told not to interfere in the “I hope this visit will be a new security of Gulf Arab nations beginning for solidarity between and to respect the rights of his our two people,” he said. country’s Sunni minority as he Ahmadinejad will attend began a landmark visit to Egypt a summit of the 57-mem- yesterday. ber Organisation of Islamic Ahmadinejad, the first Iranian Cooperation that opens today president to visit Egypt in more in Cairo to tackle crises rang- than 30 years, was given a red- ing from the French-led battle carpet welcome by Islamist against Islamist militants in Mali President Mohammed Mursi to the Syrian civil war. but later chided by Egypt’s top The visit comes amid thaw- Sunni cleric. ing relations between Egypt and Ahmed Al Tayyeb, the Grand Iran, which severed ties with Imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar, Sunni Cairo in 1980, in protest over a Islam’s highest seat of learning, peace treaty sealed between Israel demanded “the Iranian president and Egypt in 1979, the same year respect Bahrain as a brotherly Iran’s Islamic revolution toppled Arab nation, and not interfere in the pro-West Shah. the affairs of Gulf states”. Iran has been reaching out to He also denounced what he Egypt since Islamists came to described as the “spread of power in the wake of the 2011 rev- Shiism in Sunni lands” and said olution that ousted veteran presi- Ahmadinejad must uphold the dent Hosni Mubarak, a staunch rights of his Shia-ruled country’s critic of Tehran. Traffic was disrupted after a trailer truck flipped over at the Gulf Cinema intersection in Najma at noon yesterday. No casualties were reported. Traffic Sunni minority. Ahmadinejad told Mursi, who hails from the pow- policemen who rushed to the accident site said the driver might have negotiated the bend at a high speed fearing the traffic lights might turn red. a news conference at Al-Azhar erful Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, (SALIM MATRAMKOT) that he “came from Iran to say attended a Non-Aligned Summit that Egypt and the Egyptian in Iran. AFP WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Over 9,000 children with special needs in Qatar Hope Qatar begins two-day awareness event at HBKU DOHA: Thousands of children This year, five members of the to reproduce beautiful landscapes with special needs in the coun- Indian Mouth and Foot Painting using my mouth,” explained M V try require support to unlock Artists (IMFPA) organisation are Ravindran, who has created over their hidden potentials to have the messengers of Hope and they 200 paintings.