th 24 Tuesday 31 August | 22 Muharram | 1443 Hijri | Vol:24 | Issue: 203 | Pages:08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 4 THINK 5 JOB SEEKING: THE RELIGIOUS 8 SPORTS PILGRIMAGE OF 21ST CENTURY WILL THE TALIBAN SPILLOVER HYDERYA SPORTS FC TO REP J&K IN “It’s the journey, not the destination” seems I-LEAGUE QUALIFIERS 2021 REACH KASHMIR? - PART 2 like a modern proverb, because it emphasises The official data indicates that not many Afghans had entered experiences over results and promises Srinagar-based football club, Hyderya Sports FC was the Kashmir insurgency in early 1990s. Data on foreign militants THINK personal transformation. However, millennia on Monday selected by the All India Football Federation who have been arrested or killed during the years when the... ago, theologians like Saint Augustine (AIFF) as the only team from J&K to compete in the Widom Afghan Situation Raises In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. —Vince Lombardi New Questions: Rajnath Says Militancy In Kashmir Will End Soon Press Trust Of India referring to the surgical strike after the Uri terror attack and Policeman Caught CHANDIGARH: Defence the Balakot air strikes after the While Accepting Bribe Minister Rajnath Singh said Pulwama attack. SRINAGAR: The Central Bureau on Monday that Jammu and "Today we can say that of Investigation (CBI) on Monday Kashmir will soon see an end Pakistan-supported model of arrested a police officer in Kathua to militancy as Article-370 and terrorism is getting demol- district of Jammu division for de- Article-35 A fuelling separat- ished in India, he said. manding and accepting bribe from a ism is over now. Singh also said that there complainant. More On P6 "I believe that the remaining was a trust deficit between terrorism in Kashmir will also India and Pakistan and the Elderly Man end. I have this belief because country needed to be vigilant the strength and oxygen that of this fact from the point of Slips To Death the separatist forces used to get view of national security. SRINAGAR: An elderly man died on there due to Articles 370 and Singh said Pakistan had un- Monday after slipping from a hillock 35A are over now, said Singh. derstood that they would not in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. He was addressing virtually make any gains from violations 65-year-old Abdul Qayoom Badan the third Balramji Dass Tandon security forces can be guessed of ceasefire agreements. Janmashtami was celebrated in Srinagar with a procession passing through many areas of uptown and lost balance and fell into a deep Memorial Lecture organised by from the fact that in the last An agreement was signed culminating at Lal Chowk. KO photo Abid Bhat gorge while More On P6 Panjab University on the issue seven years, they have not al- between the Director General of national security. lowed a single major terrorist Military Operations (DGMO) of Landslide Damages He said the Modi govern- incident in the hinterland of India and Pakistan to maintain 2 Infiltrators Shot 4 Houses ment neither does politics nor India, he said. ceasefire along the Line of Control New Strategy Adopted allows it to happen on issues India is not only taking ac- in February this year, he said. Dead On LoC JAMMU: Four houses were damaged related to national security, tion against militancy within "We are also in wait and in a landslide in Ramban district of and added that a free hand has the borders of the country, the watch mode because the trust To Promote Tourism: LG Press Trust Of India Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, offi- been given to the security forc- brave soldiers of our army have deficit between both the na- cials said. There was no report of any es in performing their duties. done the work of destroying tions is a major problem, he JAMMU: Two militants were killed death or injury to anyone. The houses "How high the confidence terrorist hideouts by crossing said, adding that no ceasefire as Army troops foiled an infiltration were damaged at Kunfer village of and morale of the army and the border if needed, he said, violation by More On P6 attempt along the Line of Control Chanderkote More On P6 (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir early on Monday, a Cops Seize Century defence spokesperson said. Old Sculpture ‘Have Learnt A Lot From 1962 Sino-India War’ Jammu-based Defence Public SRINAGAR: Police have recovered a efence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that India wants a solution to the border dispute with China Relation Officer Lt Col Devender century old sculpture from a local in through dialogue and asserted that the government would never allow the sanctity of borders to be violated. Anand said the operation is still Khansahib area of Budgam district DThe Modi government has made it clear to the forces that any unilateral action on the Line of Actual Control Observer News Service LG related to development of underway in the area. before it could be sold in the market. (LAC) should not be ignored, he said. Singh was delivering virtually the third Balramji Dass Tandon Memorial Lecture unexplored tourism potential "In the early hours of August An official said that the 100-year-old organised by Panjab University on the issue of national security. The defence minister said that there have been per- SRINAGAR: The administration areas, expediting the work on 30, terrorists from across the Line sculpture was recovered from the ception differences on the border with China. Despite this, there are some agreements, protocols More On P6 is working on a multipronged Tawi Riverfront, besides wid- of Control made an attempt to in- house of Nawaz Ahmad Sheikh son strategy for the promotion of ening of Dayalachak- Challan filtrate in the Poonch Sector. Alert of Abdul Rashid More On P6 tourism in Jammu and Kashmir road and construction of Army troops detected the infiltra- to attract more and more tour- Lakhanpur-Mahanpur-Basohli- tion bid by effective use of the in- 3 Injured In Policeman Arrested ists to the region, besides Dunera road. tegrated surveillance grid," he said. generating employment av- He also thanked the gov- "Two terrorists attempting Lightning Strike For Killing Wife Panchayat Members Seek enues for the local population, ernment for developing water to infiltrate across the LoC have SRINAGAR: Three people were Lieutenant Governor Manoj sports infrastructure in Basohli, been successfully neutralised by injured on Monday after a lightning More Security, Vehicles Sinha said Monday. and requested for expansion the troops of the Indian Army struck remote Karnah area of north He made these remarks of the water sports facilities in who remain ever-vigilant in dis- Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Press Trust Of India government is fully commit- while interacting with former the area to develop it as a major charging their duties," he said. Shakeel Ahmad Jatla, Sajad Ahmad ted to ensuring their security J&K Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. tourist hub. The body of one militant along Paswal and Mohammad Aamir PAHALGAM: In the wake of and said he will convey their Nirmal Singh at Raj Bhavan While interacting with the with an AK-47 rifle has been re- Paswal were injured when lightning recent attacks on sarpanches concerns to the lieutenant gov- here on Monday, an official former Deputy CM, the LG ob- covered. The body of the second struck Kana-Gabra More On P6 in Kashmir, local panchayat ernor of Jammu and Kashmir. spokesperson said. served that the government is militant along with an AK-47 rifle Agencies leaders requested Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha speaker Singh, he said, submitted making concerted efforts to was seen across the LoC, Lt Col Speaker Om Birla for addi- also invited the panchayat a charter of demands to the promote Basohli More On P6 Anand said. More On P6 Do You Get Your Copy of JAMMU: A policeman and his tional security and vehicles leaders to visit Parliament to mother were arrested over on Monday. watch its proceedings. KASHMIR alleged murder of his wife, a Birla, who is on a four-day trip District Development J&K Records 105 teacher, in the Poonch district to the valley, visited Pahalgam Council (DDC) Chairman, OBSERVER of Jammu and Kashmir, of- on Monday and interacted with Anantnag, Mohammad New Covid Cases Regularly? ficials said Monday. With the the panchayat leaders. Yusuf Gorsi expressed his two arrests, the police claimed He assured them that the gratitude to More On P6 Press Trust Of India to have solved the murder Cash case of 36-year-old Shahnaz SRINAGAR: Jammu and Akhter at Keri Gulatta village J&K On Path Of Peace And Prosperity: Birla Kashmir recorded 105 fresh last week, they said. aintaining that Jammu and Kashmir is on a path of peace and cases of the coronavirus on Akhter's body with visible prosperity, the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday urged Pan- Monday taking the number of injury marks was found 100 Mchayat representatives for their greater involvement in making infected people to 3,25,253, N Carry meters from her house on the democratic institutions more transparent and accountable. while the union territory reg- August 24 and a special inves- Birla, who arrived in Srinagar on Sunday, met with the More On P6 istered no fresh death due to tigation team was constituted the virus in the past 24 hours, Super Store to probe her death. "The blind officials said. If Not murder case was solved with- IT IS VISIBLE THAT THE PANCHAYATI RAJ Of the fresh cases, 30 were in a week with the arrest of institutions have strengthened grassroots- from the Jammu division and Contact Circulation Incharge: the husband and the mother- level democracy here and democratic 75 from the Kashmir division Irshad Ahmad: 7006276927 in-law of the deceased," Sub- institutions have become more answerable to people.” of the union territory, the of- Divisional More On P6 ficials said.