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TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 • 23 Rajab 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6428 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 No reprieve UN failures abetting crises: PM from traffic No peace in region until Israeli occupation ends, 15th Doha Forum told jams for four DOHA: The failure of UN years: Official Security Council to press for sanctions on Israel, as it did DOHA: Motorists should not with some other countries, expect any reprieve from the reflects its double standards, frustrating traffic jams on the Prime Minister and Interior city roads in at least four years to Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah come, warns a top traffic official. bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani “It wouldn’t take less than said yesterday. four years for the traffic The Prime Minister said that snarls on Doha roads to ease,” the inability of UN Security Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al Council to resolve several dis- Kharji, Director of the Traffic putes has resulted in the failure Department, told Al Sharq. of the collective security system He said while Al Rayyan road and this would lead to creation upgrade project, which is part of of an environment favourable to the Expressway Programme was violence and instability. going to be completed soon on He was addressing the 15th time, the Lusail City project will Doha Forum and Enriching the take two years to finish. Middle East’s Economic Future The Sharq Crossing Conference, which Deputy Emir Programme (which comprises H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad West Bay Bridge, Cultural City Al Thani opened at the Doha Bridge, Sharq Bridge and sub- Sheraton last evening. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani, Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and merged tunnel links) is expected The Prime Minister said other dignitaries at the 15th Doha Forum and Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future Conference at Doha Sheraton yesterday. to be completed in 2018. that it was regrettable that the Unless these projects are over Security Council did not shoul- committed. This reflects the independent State, with Al Quds number of other dignitaries. take the necessary legal measures traffic jams will continue on the der its legal and moral responsi- double standards in dealing with Al Sharif as its capital on the 1967 H E Sheikh Abdullah bin to preserve the security of the roads in Doha, the daily quoted Al bilities to maintain international peoples’ issues, and is contrary to borders in accordance with the Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani said Syrian people and realise their Kharji as saying. peace and security and to put an international law and costs the legitimate Arab and international that the international community, legitimate aspiration according to New vehicles are coming on the end to settlements, oppression international community its cred- decisions. especially the Security Council Geneva 1 conference’s decisions. roads in large numbers by the day and destruction, arrests and ibility,” he said. The opening ceremony was has also failed to end the Syrian The Prime Minister stressed and the roads with limited capacity siege pursued by Israel. The Prime Minister pointed also attended by Advisory Council crisis despite the continued suf- that the phenomenon of terror- are unable to accommodate them. “The Council did nothing out that there will be no peace Speaker Mohamed bin Mubarak fering of the Syrian people due ism poses a real threat to inter- “So efforts are being made to ease towards these Israeli practices and stability in the region until Al Khulaifi, Iraqi Vice-President to the destruction, genocide and national peace and security and congestions on the roads.” He urged and did not press or threaten there is an end to Israeli occu- Iyad Allawi, Somali Prime displacement carried out by the damages the economies of target office-goers to not use their cars in to impose sanctions on Israel, pation and giving the Palestinian Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Syrian regime. countries. Al Dafna area and instead use free as it did with other countries people their rights, including Sharmarke, Former President of He called on the Security Council Continued on page 2 bus shuttle services. where less aggressive acts were the right to establish their own Tunisia Moncef Marzouki and a to shoulder its responsibilities and THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Illegal visa trade to stop after online wage transfer: NHRC DOHA: Qatar’s human rights transferring workers’ salaries their workers and payments made watchdog says it hopes the ille- online. “There will be no escape to them. The aim of the new sys- gal trade in work visas would for any company after that, and tem would be to stop irregularities end once companies begin pay- once every company begins paying in the local job market. ing salaries to all their workers all its workers online, bogus com- Hwail said it was the NHRC through banking channels. panies that sell work visas will be which had demanded from the The National Human Rights exposed.” government few years ago to Committee (NHRC) says it is These are the firms that sell make it mandatory for every eagerly waiting to closely moni- visas. Workers arrive here on worker in the country to be paid tor private companies transfer- such visas and then they are through banking channels. ring workers’ pay online once the left abandoned, Hwail told local The idea was to make sure that wage protection system (WPS) is Arabic daily Al Raya in remarks workers are paid on time. “With in place. “Companies have been published yesterday. the WPS in place, we at the given six months’ time to com- However, once the WPS is in NHRC also hope that workers’ ply with the new system after a force, these fake companies that complaints lodged with us would WPS law was issued recently,” thrive on the illegal visa trade drastically reduce drastically in said Jaber Al Hwail. would cease to exist as they number,” he said. Hwail hinted A huge explosion rocks military weapon depots controlled by the Houthis in Sana’a yesterday. Al Hwail, head of legal affairs at wouldn’t be able to pay their work- that most worker complaints the NHRC, said the six months’ ers online. The companies will also filed at the NHRC were regard- deadline was to end soon, after be required to periodically submit ing delayed wage payment. Warplane missing; raids heat up which companies must begin reports citing details of salaries of THE PENINSULA SANA’A: Yemeni rebels said wreckage of a plane bearing a areas killed six civilians, includ- yesterday that they shot down Moroccan flag. ing three women and a child. a fighter jet as Saudi-led coali- Moroccan state media said Residents reported three hours Restaurant fined QR32,000; tion air strikes intensified a day contact was lost with the F-16 of continuous air raids on the city. Al Jazeera sued ahead of a hoped-for five-day late on Sunday afternoon, and “a In Aden, at least 19 people 3 months closure ordered humanitarian truce. second plane flying in formation were killed and 93 were wounded, for $100m Morocco announced that one was not able to see whether the including women and children, in DOHA: In a first, a court here has fined a famous Turkish res- of its warplanes taking part in pilot ejected”. The Houthis said on fighting on Sunday between rebels CAIRO: An Al Jazeera televi- taurant QR32,000 and ordered its closure for three months and operations against the rebels was television that there were “more and supporters of exiled President sion journalist on trial in Egypt sentenced five of its employees to jail for varying terms after they missing along with its pilot, and than 20 raids since the morning” Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. has filed a lawsuit in a Canadian were found guilty of serving stale food that led to food poisoning. that a search was under way. by coalition aircraft across Saada. Elsewhere, a Pakistani and a court accusing his employer of All the five staff members of Marmara Istanbul Restaurant Coalition air strikes hit Iran- The coalition has declared the Saudi were killed when the Saudi negligence and has demanded in Bin Omran neighbourhood will be deported after serving backed rebels in their northern entire rebel stronghold of Saada border area came under renewed $100m in compensation, his their jail term. Among those convicted are the manager who has stronghold of Saada and in Sana’a, province to be a military target bombardment from Yemen, state lawyer said yesterday. been sentenced to three months in jail and given a fine of QR10,000, where they sparked powerful after Houthi bombardment of media said. Mohamed Fahmy, who spent three others have been ordered to spend a month in jail and pay explosions at an arms depot that Saudi towns across the border The latest violence comes ahead more than 400 days in a Cairo a fine of QR7,000 each and another staffer who didn’t have health shook the city. caused several deaths. of a five-day truce Riyadh has jail on charges of aiding a ter- certificate has been jailed for a month and fined QR8,000. Officials said the twin strikes Aid agencies say some 70,000 offered to start from 11pm (2000 rorist organisation, suggested The matter will go in appeal, it is understood.