An Eid Bazaar, held by the Pakistan Women’s Association (PWA) and Talent Resources, over the weekend at the Bright Future Pakistani School (BFPS) raised QR35,000 for the victims of the recent floods in Pakistan.

A human rights expert said yesterday that Qatar’s possible entry to an additional torture prevention treaty would be a “boost” towards protecting rights of prisoners in the region.

The two-day Fourth Arab Conference for Attorneys General and Chief Investigators, which is to tackle issues such as terrorism, drug trafficking, smuggling, bank fraud, cyber crimes and corruption, was launched in Doha yesterday.

Qatar is keen to support joint Arab action, especially in the areas of development in order to fight poverty, unemployment and in promoting programmes for youth employment and women empowerment, social affairs undersecretary Ahmed Nasser al-Nasser said. Al-Nasser was speaking to reporters at the end of the 56th session of the executive bureau of the Arab ministers for Social Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Arab League yesterday.

Masaken Al Sailiyah and Musaimeer limited an emerging subsidiary of Barwa group won the “Best Completed Development Award” at the Affordable Housing Development Middle East Summit, held in Bahrain.

Private companies will soon be required to provide details of the salaries paid to their workers to the Ministry of Labour every month.

One person died and another suffered critical injuries after a car they were travelling in met with a serious accident ahead of Duhail petrol station on Al Shamal Road yesterday.

She really wanted to prove something about woman power and she indeed did. She is the only female student among the 45 who graduated in the intensive training course for pilots this year from the Qatar Aeronautical College (QAC).

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar is participating in the annual Education City Road Show for the sixth straight year which comes as complementary to its long-term recruitment strategy in Qatar and the region.