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Article 35-A K JAMMU MONDAY AUGUST , 6 2018 K M Price : Rs. 2.00 M Y VOL. 33 | NO. 215 Y C RNI No. 43798/86 C REGD. NO. : JM/JK 118/15 /17 Email: [email protected] Daily news you can trust epaper.glimpsesoffuture.com WORLD NATIONAL SPORTS Melania praises LeBron Union minister Piyush Virat Kohli overtakes Steve James after Trump insults Goyal proposes higher pay, Smith to become the NBA star rank for Railway general number one batsman PAGE 8 PAGE 12 PAGE 9 Article 35-A: Complete shutdown in Kashmir morrow -- as Supreme Court is Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq the constitutional provision. A %" "% scheduled to hear a PIL chal- and Mohammad Yasin Malik. police official said the yatra lenging the validity of the Protests have been held was suspended from here as a Life in Kashmir today came Article 35-A tomorrow. across the length and breadth precautionary measure in view to a standstill due to a complete The state government has of Kashmir over the past few of the strike called by the Joint shutdown called by separatists filed an application before the days with mainstream parties Resistance Leadership (JRL). against the legal challenge in Registrar of the Supreme like the National Conference A few hundred pilgrims the Supreme Court on the va- Court, informing that it is go- and PDP also holding rallies in camping in Jammu to join the lidity of Article 35-A, which ing to seek adjournment of the support of continuing Article yatra to the 3,880 metre high bars people from outside hearing of the petition in view 35-A. holy cave shrine of Amarnath Jammu and Kashmir from ac- of the "ongoing preparations Meanwhile, Amarnath ya- in south Kashmir Himalayas quiring any immovable proper- for the upcoming Panchayat tra was today suspended from were not allowed from the ty in the state. and urban local body and mu- Jammu in view of the two day Bhagwati Nagar base camp this The situation across the nicipal elections in the state". separatist sponsored strike morning, the officials said. valley is peaceful with no unto- The officials said security against the legal challenge in The separatists and the ma- ward incident reported from forces have been deployed in the Supreme Court on the va- jor political parties including anywhere so far, officials said. strength at vulnerable places in lidity of Article 35-A. National Conference, Peoples Shops and business establish- the city and elsewhere in There were reports of par- Democratic Party (PDP) ments were closed across the Kashmir for maintaining law tial strike and peaceful rallies CPI(M) and the state unit of Valley while all kinds of trans- and order. Various organisa- in support of the Article 35-A Congress have been demand- port remained off the roads due tions included Bar Association, from Chenab valley districts of ing status quo on the Article 35- to the strike called. transporters and traders' bod- Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar. A, which bars people from out- The Joint Resistance ies have extended support to Various religious and so- side Jammu and Kashmir from Leadership (JRL) has called for the shutdown call of the JRL, cial organisations have given acquiring any immovable %+'$%'%' $(&) $, $,%'!) "! $' $'%$*$- a two-day strike -- today and to- comprising Syed Ali Shah the two-day strike to safeguard ') "%$& India to ask Pak to provide details on Jaish terrorist Govt begins relief Govt constitutes Youth killed mysteriously committee to review citing 32-yr-old Commonwealth pact: officials distribution process for security of protected -*# '*" Maulana Masood Azhar The agreement was orig- at Farooq Abdullah’s )&%')' banned under the Security inally adopted by West Pakistan refugees persons " "' % Council resolution 1267. Commonwealth law minis- residence laid to rest China has blocked previous ters at their meeting at here to chart out a India plans to invoke a 32- %% road map for accord- moves by India seeking a Harare in Zimbabwe in 1986. %% year-old Commonwealth ban on the JeM and Azhar. Citing this pact, India ing the relief to the The State Government today or- The Jammu and West Pakistan pact to seek details from According to officials in will seek details from Family members of the youth who was killed dered constitution of a three Kashmir government refugees living in dif- Pakistan about the 2018 the Union Home and Pakistan about Mufti yesterday at the residence of Dr Farooq member committee headed by today launched the re- ferent parts of Jammu Sunjawan Army camp ter- External Affairs ministries, Waqas, who was killed in an Abdullah on Sunday was laid to rest in ADG Security to review the secu- ror attack mastermind Mufti lief disbursement region, an official the relevant papers were be- encounter in March this Bantalab amid protest demonstration against rity of protected persons. This Waqas, a Jaish-e- process for the spokesman said to- ing readied to send a request year with security forces at the National Conference leadership. Hundreds %+)%$& refugees from West day. The divisional Mohammed (JeM) militant to Pakistan under the Awantipura in South Pakistan, directing commissioner also of people from across Jammu division partici- who was killed by security Commonwealth pact for in- Kashmir, the officials said. identification of the asked the officials to pated in the protest demonstration including forces in March this year, ac- ternational cooperation in The details include phone Suspected drug eligible beneficiaries. take steps to apprise women when they kept the body of Syed cording to officials. The criminal matters, under numbers dialled by Waqas Jammu Divisional the refugees of the re- Murfad Shah, son of Imzad Hussain Shah, resi- peddler attempts move is also expected to help which commonwealth na- before and after the terror at- Commissioner quirement of various dent of Mendhar in Poonch on the road and India in making a fresh ap- tions are bound to provide tack on the Sunjawan Army Sanjeev Verma issued documents for avail- staged demonstration. Wailing family mem- suicide in Udhampur peal to the United Nations to Mutual Legal Assistance on camp on February 10 in the directive at a ing the relief. The bers especially women were among the protest- get the JeM and its chief such issues, they said. $ %$& )&%')' meeting convened %+)%$& ers who demanded justice for their deceased %% son who was killed under mysterious circum- stances inside the private residence of Farooq A suspected drug peddler today Abdullah in Bathindi. Turning down the attempted suicide by allegedly Cattle trader killed claims made by the police and CRPF, the family jumping from the first floor of a Kathua case: Accused was not in members alleged that their son was murdered police station in Udhampur dis- trict of Jammu and Kashmir, in Army firing, FIR in cold blood and the accused personnel al- hours after he was arrested un- legedly being shielded with cooked stories. der the Narcotic Drugs and registered Meerut, handwriting tests claim Earlier, the family members held a protest Psychotropic Substances demonstration in Chinore area of Bantalab de- *(&)%$& charge sheet that Vishal, ac- and 15," it said. The girl was kid- manding an independent probe. “We always %% %% cused of raping the girl, had napped on January 10 and sub- voted for National Conference. We never tried to create an alibi of his ab- sequently killed on January 13 thought our son will get killed in the house of A 28-year-old cattle trader was killed Sexual torture of 3 The crime branch of sence from the crime scene by night. Her body was dumped by our leader whom we admired. Farooq and another injured allegedly in fir- Jammu and Kashmir have car- allegedly "resorting to manipu- Vishal, his juvenile cousin and Abdullah was one who participated when my years old girls in Private ing by Army personnel in Ramban ried out scientific tests to sup- lation of records and creation of Khajuria on January 14 after father was laid to rest. It was brutal. They have district of Jammu and Kashmir to- port its probe that Vishal false evidence with the con- which he took a train for killed my son,” said wailing mother of the School in Jammu day, police said. Jangotra, an accused in the nivance and assistance of his fa- Meerut. The body of the victim youth. A woman, who claimed to be the lone %%%#$ Police registered an FIR against rape and murder of an 8-year- ther". was recovered on January 17. eyewitness to the mysterious killing of un- the Army personnel involved in the old girl in Kathua, was not in According to the charge The handwriting experts also Succumbing to the pressure armed youth, reached the residence of the de- incident. The Army, however, said Meerut when the crime took sheet filed by the crime branch, opined that the surname of ac- from civil society and the par- ceased to express her condolence. The woman, the soldiers opened fire when they place in January. the answer sheets as well as at- cused (Jangotra) "could have ents of minor girls, who were fac- who wished her identity should not be dis- came under attack after challenging The charges of rape and tendance sheet of Vishal, son of been anachronistically added ing sexual torture in Pre-nursery closed, claimed that “Yesterday, I was passing the people moving suspiciously in murder of the girl were framed alleged main accused Sanji on the attendance sheets of School in Trikuta Nagar. Instead though the area, when I saw the XUV of Syed the area. by the district and sessions Ram, were sent to handwriting January 12 and 15." of acting tough, the police regis- Murfad Shah outside the main gate of Farooq Mohammad Rafiq Gujjar (28) and court in Pathankot against experts, also known as The crime branch also tered molestation case against Abdullah’s residence.
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