ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 25 December 2012 12 Safar 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5559 Price: QR2 Shell, Venture Pakistan team Gulf sign pins hope supply deal on bowlers Business | 17 Sport | 27 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Lekhwiya to play GCC leaders hail bloc’s progress Bayern Munich in Doha friendly DOHA: Qatar Stars League Kuwait to host (QSL) champions Lekhwiya will host German giants Bayern Syria donors Munich in a friendly game here on January 5, a news report said yesterday. meet in January Bayern Munich, who lost the Champions League final to MANAMA: Kuwait yesterday Chelsea in May this year, will urged the international com- head to Doha for a short winter munity to “act immediately” camp after New Year’s eve. to stop bloodshed in Syria and A Bayern Munich post yes- the continued suffering of its terday said “Philipp Lahm and people, and asked Iran to fol- the team players were officially low the requirements of the released for the holiday season on International Atomic Energy December 19 and have 14 days to Agency (IAEA). relax and spend time with their The Emir of Kuwait, H H families”. Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Bayern players report back on Al Sabah, cited a recent reported January 2 for the flight to the glitch at Bushehr nuclear reactor annual winter training camp to plant as a source of anxiety over be held in Doha for the third year the security of the region. in a row. During the stay in Doha, Addressing the two-day GCC coach Jupp Heynckes and his play- summit that began in Manama ers will aim to lay the foundations yesterday, he said cooperation of a successful second half of the among the member states was campaign and the pursuit of three urgently needed to protect the trophies. region and help achieve the aspi- On January 8, Bayern Munich rations of its people. The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the leaders of other GCC states at the GCC summit in Manama, Bahrain, yesterday. will play Schalke 04 in Doha. The Kuwaiti ruler announced In another football-related a donor conference for civilians development, a news report on caught up in the Syrian conflict The session was also attended The GCC had not yet met the In his address, Saudi Crown aggression on the Palestinians in Alkass said Lekhwiya’s friendly to be held at the end of January at by members of the official del- aspirations of the member states’ Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, the Gaza Strip, noting that peace match against German side the request of the United Nations. egation accompanying the Heir people, he said, stressing the need delivered an appeal for unity. will not be achieved in the area Schalke 04 on January 6 had The Heir Apparent, H H Apparent. to redouble efforts to realise the “We aspire to a strong union until the legitimate rights of the been cancelled. However, the QSL Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Bahrain’s ruler, H M King objectives of the bloc, which was with integrated economies, a Palestinian people were achieved. champions will play Paris Saint- Thani, took part along with other Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, set up in 1981. joint foreign policy and a common The GCC Secretary-General, Germain, the French giants now GCC leaders in the opening ses- thanked his GCC compatriots King Hamad underlined the defence system,” he said. Dr Abdul Latif Rashid Al Zayani, owned by Qatar, on January 2 as sion of the 33rd GCC Supreme for supporting his country and importance of the decision taken Kuwait’s emir described as said the council had proved its scheduled, the report added. Council Summit at the Grand stressed that challenges before at the last GCC summit, in a successful step upgrading clout and cohesion, withstanding Convention Hall at Al Sakhir the bloc required joint efforts and Riyadh, to move from the phase the status of Palestine at the fast regional and Arab political Palace in Manama, Qatar News coordinated economic and defence of cooperation to that of union in UN to an observer state. He and economic changes. Qatar to build $280m Agency reported. policies. order to arrive at a unified entity. also referred to Israel’s latest AGENCIES medical city in Yemen DOHA: Qatar plans to build a huge medical city in Yemen at a cost of $280m. It will be called Hamad Medical City. India-Pakistan The plan for the proposed Local growers get own vegetable market medical city was disclosed during hockey match a meeting between the Yemeni DOHA: Local farmhouse own- Company and will begin operating produce there if they wish, a sen- as well as spinach and other leafy Public Health and Population a sellout ers, who mainly grow vegetables, on Thursday, December 27. ior environment ministry official greens. The farms are active only Minister, Ahmed Al Ansi, and are heaving a sigh of relief as The new vegetable market will said yesterday. between October and June. the Assistant Secretary General DOHA: A large number of the government has freed them be open three days a week — on “The market will be run by The new market will, however, for Policy Affairs at the Supreme hockey fans who had come to from the shackles of middlemen Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays Hassad Food Company,” said not be allowed to sell at the retail Council of Health, Faleh Mohamed watch the India-Pakistan match and allotted them a huge cov- — from 7am until 7pm. On the Yousuf Khalid Al Khulaifi, head and wholesale prices prevailing at Hussein, in Yemen yesterday. of the Asian Champions Trophy ered area where they can now opening day, the market will func- of the agricultural affairs depart- the Central Market, Al Khulaifi Hussein is on an official visit to at Al Rayyan Stadium returned sell their produce directly to tion from 10am onwards. ment of the environment ministry. said. He added that the new mar- Yemen along with a team working disappointed as tickets were consumers as well as retailers. Local vegetable growers have Addressing a news conference, keting strategy for local vegetables on the medical city project, which sold out two days before the The covered space, which has so far been forced to bring their he said plans were afoot to set up was aimed at breaking the hold of will come up in the Taiz governo- crunch match. been built by the Ministry of produce to the Central Market another market near the new one middlemen on vegetable sales. rate. During the meeting, Al Ansi The event management com- Environment, is located near in Doha and auction it to middle- in the near future where fresh The farm owners will, thus, be and Hussein reviewed the outcome pany QSports, managing the Umm Salal Sports Club on Al men — a practice that will cease chicken, fish and red meat will able to get fair prices for their pro- of a visit by a Qatari task force on show on behalf of Qatar Hockey Shamal expressway, and is close to the coming Thursday. be sold. duce, the official said. “They can the Hamad Medical City project to Federation, bowing to popular the 22 farmhouses in the country However, auctions at the The local farms grow many veg- bring their produce to the new Taiz governorate and its meetings demand, had sold additional 400 that grow vegetables. The market Central Market will continue and etables, including tomatoes, pota- market and sell directly,” he added. with the local authorities. tickets yesterday. will be managed by Hassad Food the local growers can sell their toes, cucumber, ‘koosa’, eggplant THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA The Al Rayyan Stadium hockey stadium, which was built during the 2006 Asian Games, has a capacity of 2,000 spectators. Ben Ali’s cars Arch rivals India and Pakistan, Malaysia, China, Japan and Oman Saudi writer arrested are contesting the six-nation tournament which ends on December 27. India has qualified for the final and another match for blasphemous tweet between the two teams is on the cards if Pakistan finish second in DOHA: A liberal Saudi Arabian Muhammed (PBUH). They the round-robin league matches. writer has been arrested for deceived us by saying that it was See also page 28 making comments on Twitter God’s law but in the end it was only that the interior ministry said ideas,” Al Sharq quoted Alhamad Qatar’s fiscal surplus were insulting to Islam. as saying on his Twitter account. Dr Turki Alhamad was arrested “The Prophet came with a surges to QR118bn on orders of Prince Mohamed bin humanitarian religion but some DOHA: Qatar’s fiscal sur- Nayef who received “complaints” changed it into anti-human reli- plus for the first two quarters from several Islamic scholars, Al gion…The Sun will rise,” he said. of 2012/13 financial year has Sharq reported yesterday. Al Hamad’s comments pro- surged to QR118bn. The sur- The daily said Alhamad will voked many, and some Islamic plus is QR64bn higher than the be investigated. His comments scholars complained to the surplus posted for the full fiscal provoked heated debate on social interior minister. The minister year of the financial year 2011/12 networking sites in Saudi Arabia. ordered his arrest after his minis- at QR54bn. The Qatar General Alhamad attacked radical try confirmed that he had indeed Secretariat for Development Islam in comments on his Twitter made those comments.