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LAST PAGE...P.8 FRIDAY C MAY-2020 KASHMIR M 23 Y SRINAGAR TODAY : PARTLY CLOUDY Contact 22 : -0194-2502327 K FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS & YOUR COPY OF Maximum : 27°c SUNSET Today 07:31 PM Minmum : 14°c SUNRISE Humidity : 48% Tommrow 05:25 AM 28 Ramazan-ul-Mubarak | 1441 Hijri | Vol: 23 | Issue: 109 | Pages: 08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 everal weeks before the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s Minister for External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, .....OPINION CHINA, BETTER had observed (at a lecture) that “what defines power and determines national standing is also no longer the PREPARED FOR THE POST- Ssame... Technology, connectivity and trade are at the heart of the new contestations....” The Minister could never have imagined that within a few weeks, his prediction would be overtaken by a tectonic shift in the global situation P4 thanks to a virus and a pandemic. The Minister did mention a point about “known unknowns”, but what he could hardly COVID WORLD have anticipated is how radical the changes would be, thanks to the phenomenon of “unknown unknowns”..... Amid Contagion Curbs, Siege Mentality Returns To Haunt Kashmir News Digest Rakshanda Afrin to join college this year. tinued, such minds have been being deprived of mobilising their “Such a cursed life makes you seen in erstwhile Soviet Union, pent up emotions with their peer TH 28 RAMAZAN SRINAGAR: After a certain point captive in your own home.” North Korea and Syria. group, neighbours or relations.” IFTAR SEHRI in pandemic lockdown, Sh- Coming from the volatile Ra- “When a population is confront- According to the 2015-sur- TODAY TOMMOROW agufta, 18, couldn’t take her be- jouri Kadal of Srinagar, the citadel ed with an insecure and uncertain vey conducted by MSF, Doc- FIQAH 07:33 03:46 sieged routine anymore. Feeling of cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, situation, this troubled mentality tors without Borders, nearly 1.8 HANAFIYA vexed, she started raising her Sagufta’s is a classic case of the seeps into almost every human million adults (45% of the adult FIQAH pitch against her parents, and ‘siege mentality’ — a peculiar endeavor,” Kashmir’s ace mental population) in the Kashmir Val- JAFARIYA 07:43 03:44 refused to come out of her room socio-psychological state arising specialist said. “It impacts psycho- ley show symptoms of signifi- for hours together. collectively, if a person is not free, logical as well as behavioural so- cant mental distress. In seclusion, she kept thinking the way he or she want to be. cial patterns and practices.” “Diagnosable psychiatric or of her classmates—with whom she “I’ve witnessed the 2016 and Human beings are supposed psychological problems are more shared the last ‘normal’ class be- 2019 lockdowns,” she said. “To to have some sort of control and prevalent in a conflict prone zone fore August 4, 2019. some extent, that besieged life some feeling about their future, like Kashmir,” the doctor, with “Although we’re not new to lock- was bearable. But I don’t know but in a conflict situation, percep- over 28 years of clinical experi- downs, but I and my classmates are why this present lockdown feels tion of world changes, he said. ence in Kashmir, said. finding it hard to adjust to these re- a different experience.” “Kashmiris are already overbur- “As nobody knows how long it peated restrictions now,” said Sh- Expert Take of perpetual siege gives rise to Margoob told Kashmir Observer. dened. And when the population will continue, people mobilise their agufta, who was looking forward Living in such an atmosphere ‘besieged’ minds, Dr. Mushtaq Due to lack of freedom, he con- is locked up constantly, they’re own inbuilt mechanism PAGE 02 B R Sharma Appointed Cleric Who Led Govt Issues Guidelines For PSC Chairman 2 More Covid-19 Deaths In Militant’s Funeral Domestic Flight Operations Jammu: Government of Jammu and Kashmir has appointed B R Denied Bail Sharma, former IAS Officer, as Kashmir, Toll Reaches 20 Chairman Public Service Com- Agencies mission for the Union Territory SRINAGAR: A special NIA court in of Jammu and Kashmir. As per an order issued here Anantnag has denied bail to a cleric, today in this regard, Lieutenant who was arrested on March 3 this Governor of Union Territory of year, 726 days after leading funeral Jammu and Kashmir has ap- prayers of a militant from his native pointed Sharma as PSC Chairman village, Damhal Hanjipora in south who shall hold the position of the Pic Abid Bhat Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Chairman, Public Service P-02 The funeral of the militant Amir Tantray, killed in an encounter with Govt Transfers joint team of police and army on 25 File Pic. 4 KAS Officers October 2018 at Arwani Bijbehara, Srinagar: The Jammu and Kash- was held next day. Press Trust Of India “On the day of commence- mir administration on Thursday As per prosecution, when the ment (May 25), limited opera- shifted four KAS officers in the militant’s body was brought to his NEW DELHI- A day after an- tions (about one-third) would be interest of administration. native village, the people of the area nouncing the resumption of permitted,” it said. In an order issued here today by assembled. “The accused Moham- domestic commercial pas- It said passengers will have to the General Administration De- med Iqbal Bhat being cleric and one senger flights from May 25, report at the airport two hours partment (GAD),Farooq Ahmad another cleric namely Tariq Ahmad the Civil Aviation Ministry prior to their flight’s scheduled Shah, KAS, Custodian General, headed and performed funeral of the on Thursday issued detailed departure time and only those J&K, has been transferred and Funeral of a Covid-19 deceased woman being offered in Bemina area of city on Thursday. deceased militant. In the meanwhile guidelines for airlines, air- who have done web check-in shall await further orders of few miscreants raised anti-national ports, passengers and other will be allowed to enter the ter- adjustment in the GAD. Suriya slogans and raised slogans in favour stakeholders on issues ranging minal building. Jabeen, KAS, Managing Director, Press Trust Of India noon at the Chest Diseases Hos- of the Pakistan. They also instigated from control on air fares to re- Only one check-in bag would JAKFED, has been transferred pital here, they said. 21 Cops, Intern Doctor the youth for providing assistance in strictions on number of bags. be allowed and airlines will not and posted as Custodian P-02 SRINAGAR: A 70-year-old wom- The officials said the woman Among 59 Test Positive carrying out the militant activities,” The ministry said it will pre- provide any meal services in Minor Hurt During an, who had tested COVID-19 was initially admitted to the the prosecution said. scribe lower and upper limit on flights, the ministry said. positive, died at a hospital here SMHS hospital on May 15, but af- oronavirus cases in On receiving the information, the air fares and airlines will have to Boarding for a flight will com- Pulwama Clashes on Thursday, while another ter testing positive for the corona- Jammu and Kashmir prosecution said that a case (FIR No. adhere to it “during the period of mence 60 minutes before depar- Srinagar: Clashes broke out woman, who passed away on virus, she was shifted to the Chest Ccontinued an upward 107/2018) for the offence under section COVID-19 pandemic”. ture and the boarding PAGE 02 between protesters and govern- Wednesday, also tested posi- Diseases Hospital on May 18 as a trend on Thursday as 59 153 RPC, 13 ULA(P) Act and 2 PINH was ment forces on Thursday during tive for the infection, taking the case of COPD with restrictive lung more people, including 21 registered with Police Station D.H.Pora policemen and an intern a cordon and search operation novel coronavirus-related death disease and COVID Pneumonia. and investigation commenced. doctor tested positive to LL SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL (CASO) in Karimabad area of toll to 20 in the Union Territory, She died at the intensive care unit “During the course of investiga- the virus, taking the P-02 south Kashmir’s Pulwama dis- officials said. of the hospital around noon after a tion statement of witnesses were re- passenger flight operations have been trict. According to the reports, The 70-year-old from Pari- sudden cardiac arrest, they said. The corded under section 161 Cr.PC. The Asuspended since March 25, when the Modi police and CRPF laid a siege sabad area of central Kashmir's other woman (80) from Bemina SMHS hospital with bilateral pneu- accused was also found to have per- government announced the nationwide lockdown to around Karimabad village this Budgam district died around in Srinagar was admitted at the monia and hypertension petrated the crime and as PAGE 02 combat the coronavirus pandemic. afternoon after a militant attack PAGE 02 in the neighbourhood village of Prichoo left a cop dead and another injured. When the joint Private School team started searches, P-02 KP Groups Hail Domicile Law, Teachers To Get Cop Killed, Another Injured In Pulwama Attack 15 ITBP Coys Financial Help Call It 'Historic Milestone' Withdrawn From J&K JAMMU: While all the major so- on the Lieutenant Governor, Girish 3 Militant Recruits Held Srinagar: The government of Observer Monitoring Desk cial, political parties of Jammu and Chandra Murmu at the Raj Bhavan In Kupwara: Police India has ordered withdrawal SRINAGAR: The private school Kashmir have criticised the gov- on Thursday and expressed their Shah Junaid Pic by- of 15 companies of Indo Ti- teachers affected by the Co- ernment over the new domicile gratitude towards Government of olice on Thursday betan Border Police (ITBP) from vid-19 lockdown will receive law, many Kashmiri Pandit orga- India and J&K UT Administration claimed to have ar- rested three youths who Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, one-time financial assistance nizations on Thursday termed the for the introduction of new Domi- P officials said Thursday.