Tag: Qatar

Recently The Times has published a report revealing the US support to the Taliban for opening of their office in Qatar by the end...

The United States has endorsed plans for the Taliban to open political headquarters in the Gulf state of Qatar by the end of the...

Super-rich Qatar confirmed Friday they will bid for the 2020 Olympics after receiving positive feedback on plans to stage the showpiece in the autumn...

Award-winning Qatar Airways, recently named Airline of the Year 2011, and Brazil´s Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes, have implemented a new code share agreement to...

Qatar Airways today announced plans to extend its presence in the People’s Republic of China with the launch of flights to a fifth gateway...

Qatar Airways has introduced its latest in-flight duty free magazine, Shopping Extravaganza, offering passengers a greater choice of onboard products than ever before. The...

Qatar Airways is stepping up frequency on the Doha – Dubai route with three additional daily flights taking capacity up to 11 services a...

Yemen said Wednesday it intercepted financial transfers made through Qatar to fund dissidents, warning the energy rich Gulf state to stop supporting divisions in...

Qatar Airways has paid Rs 1.1 million as compensation to a Pakistani family headed by Imran Ali, a handicapped person, who had filed a...

Citing security concerns as the reason, the members of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) has decided to shift the headquarters of Islamic Chamber...

Qatar refused to play practice matches with Pakistan Football Team for the preparation of the World Cup Qualifying Round. Earlier, Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) had...

At least two passengers on board were injured when a Karachi-bound PIA’s flight PK-258 made an emergency landing in Qatar 15 minutes after taking...

QATAR - Qatar Airways, the national airline of the State of Qatar, is set to make its debut in Canada with the launch of scheduled flights to Montreal, effective June 29. Canada's second largest city will be served with three-flights-a-week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays using the airline's flagship Boeing 777-200 Long Range aircraft. The non-stop journey from the airline's hub in Doha to Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport will take a total flying time of 13

Australian Mark Renshaw landed his first stage race victory at the 10th edition of the Tour of Qatar here on Friday after the fifth and final stage, won by Italian tyro Andrea Guardini. HTC-Highroad's Renshaw took control of the race after Thursday's fourth stage to take a six-second lead over compatriot Heinrich Haussler of Garmin-Cervelo.
And the former track specialist, who is the key lead-out man to British sprint king Mark Cavendish during the hectic bunch sprints, kept an

DOHA - Belgian Tom Boonen, riding for the Quick Step team, won the first stage of the Tour of Qatar on Monday, heading home a sprint finish ahead of Australian duo Heinrich Haussler and Mark Renshaw. Boonen, a three-time winner of the Tour - now with 18 stage victories under his belt, takes the race leader's golden jersey from Dutch rider Lars Boom, who won Sunday's opening prologue but who suffered during the first stage with stomach problems.
"This victory is my reward for all

DOHA - Denmark's Thomas Bjorn reaped the reward for three rounds of consistent golf when he won the 2.5-million-dollar Qatar Masters by four shots from Spain's Alvaro Quiros at Doha Golf Club on Sunday. Bjorn posted a 69 in the final round for a total of 14-under-par 274.
It was his second win in the Middle Eastern desert, after his sensational victory over Tiger Woods at the Dubai Desert Classic in 2001. Quiros, who won in Qatar in 2009, suffered the heartbreak of finishing as

DOHA - Denmark's Thomas Bjorn produced a fluent six-under-par 66 to take a one-shot lead over Austrian Markus Brier after the third round of the 2.5-million-dollar Qatar Masters on Saturday. Veteran Bjorn, who was in joint-third position overnight, finished Saturday's round with a sensational hat-trick of birdies starting on the 16th hole to set himself up for a tilt at an 11th European Tour title.
Bjorn, who won the Portuguese Open last year to claim his first title in four