ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 3 November 2013 29 Dhul-Hijja 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5872 Price: QR2 LNG demand Arsenal growing, says extend lead Qatargas CEO at top Business | 17 Sport | 27 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Champion shooters Illegals rush to Greater role leave Saudi as amnesty ends RIYADH: Thousands of ille- gal foreigners, mostly unskilled for private workers from Asia, are rush- ing to leave Saudi Arabia as an amnesty expires today and they risk being fined or jailed. Nearly a million Bangladeshis, Filipinos, Indians, Nepalese, sector seen Pakistanis and Yemenis, among others, have benefitted from Ministry issues budget guidelines the three-month amnesty — announced on April 3 and DOHA: Guidelines issued by to lay emphasis on the country’s extended for four months — and the Ministry of Finance to ambitious expansion plans envis- left. Another roughly 4m have ministries and state agencies aged in Qatar National Vision legalised their status by finding on their budget estimates for 2030. The new budget is expected employers to sponsor them. the fiscal year (2014-15) stress to earmark a substantial amount But the clock is ticking, and that the private sector’s greater for infrastructure development, the labour ministry has said involvement in the national education and health. there will be no second chance, economy should be encouraged. The 2014-15 budget is expected despite appeals from some Asian The directives also emphasise to be pro-private sector. The cir- governments. “We have absolutely that state entities should not cular suggests that the govern- no intention of prolonging the compete with private businesses ment agencies keep away from Qatar Skeet Team’s gold and silver winners at the Second CISM International Shotgun Championship pose for amnesty,” said ministry spokes- in bidding for projects, including bidding for key projects, paving a picture during the prize distribution ceremony at the Losail Shooting Complex yesterday. man Hattab Al Anzi. the key ones. the way for the private sector Report on page 25 Pakistan says it has been In contrast to previous years, to prosper. The ministries and pressing for an extension of the the Ministry of Finance is expect- government agencies are also amnesty until January-end. Even ing comprehensive and detailed expected to outsource a large so, foreign ministry spokesman budget proposals this time. The number of their projects and Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said: “We guidelines insist that concerned works to the private sector. are trying our best to legalise as entities give a comprehensive pro- The new budget will be prepared Partial solar eclipse today many Pakistanis as we can before posal for the next fiscal year and in such a way that it would not the deadline ends.” ask them to detail their expecta- only ensure the country’s current DOHA: Qatar will witness a “This will be the last solar Indian foreign ministry spokes- tions for the next three budgets credit rating is maintained, but partial solar eclipse for 33 min- eclipse of the year.” man Syed Akbaruddin said: “We (2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 ). also help enhance it. It will also utes this evening. The eclipse will be total only have not asked for extra time,” The guidelines make it manda- be planned in a way to curb the The eclipse will be visible from along a narrow path crossing the explaining Indians had been urged tory for the ministries and state inflation rate. The circular stressed 4.19pm until 4.52pm, but people Atlantic Ocean and equatorial to “abide by the rules, and we have entities to compare their perform- that budget proposals must adhere have been warned against looking Africa (and it’s annular for the had remarkable success”. ance with regard to the budget to the guidelines. It also empha- directly at the eclipsed sun. first tiny bit on the Atlantic). Foreigners are queuing outside estimates they provided for the sised that the proposals must be People could, however, watch A much larger part of the world government offices to sort out the current financial year (2012-13) transparent and no attempt should the celestial spectacle, the last of will see a partial eclipse, includ- paperwork for leaving the king- while detailing their expectations be made to conceal concerned enti- this year, using a welder’s glass ing most of Africa, the Middle dom or legalising their stay. for the 2014-15 budget, according ties’ sources of revenue. or indirectly with a pinhole filter. East, southernmost Europe, The Arab News daily said some to a copy of the ministry’s circular The proposals must be sub- The solar eclipse will sweep northern South America and the Indians seeking repatriation had available with Al Sharq. mitted under different heads or across parts of Africa, Europe, Caribbean. From the Eastern US waited for more than 31 hours at The ministries and government chapters. While preparing them and the US as the moon will block and Canada, the viewing will be peak over land in central Gabon the deportation centre in Jeddah agencies should submit their for budget estimates and expected the sun fully or partially. tricky but potentially spectacular. around 1350 GMT, the sun will be for documents to leave. budget proposals on or before revenue sources, the ministries In Qatar, the eclipse will be 37 The greatest part of the eclipse blocked out for about a minute. The Immigration Department November 17, 2013. Discussions on and government agencies must percent, which means the moon will take place at 1237 GMT over Experts say the safe way to view said more than 900,000 people the proposals will start in January compare their previous year’s will shadow a little more than a the Atlantic Ocean, some 330km an eclipse is by making a pinhole have left with final exit visas. and continue through March. data. A highlight of the new third of the sun. southwest of Liberia, according camera, a three millimetre hole in Expatriates account for around Qatar’s budget announcement budget will be that allocations “Qatari skies will witness par- to experts. one piece of paper, then turning 9m of the country’s 27m popula- normally comes in April as the will be based on performance. tial solar eclipse. It will be 37 The west African nation of the back to the sun and using the tion. Saudi Arabia’s unemploy- fiscal year is from April to March. Judicious and result-oriented percent,” said prominent Qatari Gabon will get peak viewing of pierced page to project the image ment rate among natives is above Similar to the current budget, spending will be key in the next astronomer Sheikh Salman bin the total eclipse as it sweeps over of the sun on another sheet of 12.5 percent, which the govern- the new budget is also expected budget. THE PENINSULA Jabor Al Thani (pictured). a path nearly 60km wide. At its paper. THE PENINSULA ment is aiming to reduce. AFP Amphibious car Kerry heads to Mideast to shore Europe spies work on up key Arab ties mass surveillance WASHINGTON: US LONDON: Spy agencies in Western Europe are working together Secretary of State John Kerry on mass surveillance of Internet and phone traffic comparable to headed to the Middle East yes- programmes run by their US counterpart denounced by European terday, aiming to shore up dec- governments, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. ades-old alliances with Egypt Citing documents leaked by fugitive former US National Security and Saudi Arabia left frayed Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Guardian said methods by the turbulence sweeping the included tapping into fibre optic cables and working covertly with region. private telecommunications companies. Egyptian state media said he The Guardian named Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and the would visit Cairo today for the Netherlands as countries where intelligence agencies had been devel- first time since Washington froze oping methods in cooperation with counterparts, including Britain’s part of its $1.5bn in annual aid, surveillance agency GCHQ. The Guardian said the British spies were angered by the bloodshed and particularly impressed with Germany’s BND agency, which they said lack of democratic progress had “huge technological potential and good access to the heart of the Mait Nilson drives his amphibious car rebuilt from a Toyota Land Cruiser yesterday in Tallinn, Estonia. The since the July ouster of president Internet”. REUTERS 44-year-old mechanical engineer designed and built the car-boat Amphibear and started to drive and sail Mohammed Mursi. 60,000km around the world. He will return home in August 2014. It would come just a day before Islamist leader Mursi, the coun- try’s first democratically elected president, is due to go on trial on charges of inciting the murder Many organisations in Qatar overlook social media benefits of protesters outside the presi- dential palace in December 2012. US officials said he would BY AZMAT HAROON Twitter and Facebook have become a a team of experts manage them on social including the Interior Ministry, to build arrive in Saudi Arabia some time source of news in Qatar and the influ- media. But many organisations have not yet their accounts on social media, which now today, where he also faces tough DOHA: While Qatar’s social media ence of the online community has grown incorporated social media into their mar- help them communicate with the public. talks with the kingdom’s leaders. community continues to grow, a majority in recent months. The controversial five- keting and media strategies. However, one of the challenges faced by the Kerry’s 17th trip since becom- of government and private organisations metre head-butt statue of Zinedine Zidane, “They do not see the potential in the organisations is that it is not easy to create ing secretary of state in February do not see the benefits of engaging with for instance, was recently removed from digital market because they find it difficult social media-related jobs here.