PLAYFAIR Qatar and the ITUC told the Star yesterday that they want to see Qatar stripped of the 2022 World Cup for the continued abuse of migrant workers, not to end the diplomatic crisis in the Gulf.

In a series of tweets on Sunday night, head of general security for the Emirate of Dubai Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan said that “if the World Cup goes out of Qatar, the crisis in Qatar will end because the crisis was made to break it.”

However, Playfair Qatar said that they don’t want the World Cup to become “a pawn in bitter regional dispute” and would only back a change of venue on the grounds of “failure to reform.”