Doha, 29 May 2019 The Consular Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a number of guidelines and advices to Qatari nationals wishing to travel abroad. The Department emphasized the importance of ensuring the validity of passports and identity cards by 6 months, obtaining entry visas from countries requiring prior visas and...

Ankara, 29 June 2019 (Anadolu) U.S. President Donald Trump in his meeting with Turkish president on Saturday in the sidelines of G20 summit in Japan said that Turkey “was not allowed to buy Patriot missiles by the Obama administration” and his administration is looking at different solutions regarding its purchase of Russia’s S-400 missiles. "Turkey...

Rawalpindi, 29 June 2019 (Daily Dawn) Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday blamed “fiscal mismanagement” for the country's economic woes, days after he was appointed to a newly formed committee responsible for steering the economy. The comments come days before the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is due to decide whether...

Doha, 29 June 2019 Qatar has been announced as the host country for the 2020 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Forum, an event owned by the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). The Forum, considered a key platform for addressing how MSMEs can be empowered as the global workplace transforms, is expected to attract...

Washington, 29 June 2019 Dr. Ali bin Samikh Al-Marri, Chairman, National Human Rights Committee of Qatar has warned that "the Gulf crisis has reached its peak of escalation, which has increased the concerns and fears of the Gulf people." He called for "the need to take deterrent measures against the countries of the blockade, To...

Islamabad, 22 June 2019 (The News, APP) Pakistan and Qatar signed three MoUs on Saturday in the fields of trade, investment, tourism and financial intelligence, Radio Pakistan reported.  The MoUs were signed a few hours after Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani arrived in Islamabad on a two-day official visit. Adviser to the...

Tehran, 20 June 2019 (AlJazeera) Iran has shot down a US drone, raising fears that a major military confrontation could erupt between Tehran and Washington in the Gulf. While Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the unmanned aircraft was brought down by a surface-to-air missile on Thursday after flying into Iranian airspace, US officials said the...

Ankara, 19 June 2019 (Anadolu News) The U.S. said Wednesday it is "closely" appraising a UN report that said the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was an extrajudicial killing for which Saudi Arabia is responsible. "We are reviewing the report closely," a State Department spokesman told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity. "The...

Ankara, 18 June 2019 (Anadolu News)   Egypt’s former president Mohamed Moorsi, has been buried in a remote area of Cairo as his treatment in custody before his death was denounced as torture. Morsi, the only democratically elected civilian leader in Egypt’s history, fainted in court on Monday and was pronounced dead on arrival in...

Doha, 18 June 2019 The first Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Davao, Philippines, touched down today at Davao International Airport, where it was welcomed with a celebratory water cannon salute. Qatar Airways flight QR936 departed Hamad International Airport (HIA) on Tuesday, 18 June at 02.45 and landed in Davao at 17:20 local time. The...