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LAST PAGE...P.8 SATURDAY C JUNE-2020 KASHMIR M 23 Y SRINAGAR TODAY : THUNDERSTORMS Contact 13 : -0194-2502327 K FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS & YOUR COPY OF Maximum : 23°c SUNSET Today 07:43 PM Minmum : 13°c SUNRISE Humidity : 64% Tommrow 05:19 AM 21 Shawwal-ul-Mukarram l | 1441 Hijri | Vol: 23 | Issue: 125 | Pages: 08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 ON May 25, senior National Conference (NC) leader Aga Ruhullah publicly expressed his resentment over his party’s continued silence over the .....OPINION revocation of Article 370 of India’s Constitution, which granted autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir. WHY KASHMIR’S LEADERSHIP Ruhullah was angry over an article his colleague, Tanvir Sadiq, wrote in a local daily, urging New Delhi to let the local parties hold political activities. The article sought reconsideration of new domicile rules that for the first time have thrown open the citizenship of Jammu and Kashmir to outsiders, and restoration of high-speed mobile internet – the demands that represented a drastic climbdown from the party’s opposition to the revocation of P4 Has Abdicated At A Critical Time the autonomy. “Revisit domicile law? Lift curbs on Internet? ‘LET’ political process … run? Is that all what you are looking for in this reconciliation? If I am not reading (it) wrong, you are basically asking for 4G (internet) and THEIR ‘PERMISSION’ to let us start the political process?..... News Digest Kashmir House Srinagar Markets, Offices High Level Meet Reviews Delhi Split Between To Open From Today Javed Wani Takes J&K, Ladakh Oath As HC Judge Srinagar: The bench strength of Military Preparedness In Ladakh SRINAGAR: The Union Home Jammu and Kashmir High Court Ministry on Friday divided J&K rose to 13 as Justice Javed Iqbal House, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi Wani took oath on Friday. Re- between Union Territories of J&K ports said that Chief Justice Gita and Ladakh, which were carved Mittal administered the oath of out from the erstwhile State of office to Justice Wani at Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir. wing of the High Court at 11 a.m. In a first such move after bifur- On Tuesday last, President of cation of the erstwhile State, the India appointed Justice Wani as Ministry of Home Affairs, which is the Judge of the common High overseeing implementation of the Court to J&K and Ladakh with J&K Re-Organisation Act-2019, or- effect from the date he assumes dered provisional apportionment charge of his office. P-02 of J&K House, Chanakyapuri, New File Pic Delhi between J&K and Ladakh 124 More Test Covid-19 Union Territories. Observer News Service and issued a schedule with con- Positive InLadakh The MHA today wrote to J&K ditions for opening of shops and Leh: The Union territory of Chief Secretary, B.V.R Subrahman- SRINAGAR: After remaining business establishments here Ladakh recorded the biggest yam that the competent authority closed for over two months from Saturday. spike in coronavirus cases as has approved interim apportion- due to the lockdown imposed According to an official 124 people tested positive for ment of J&K House, Chanakyapuri by the government to combat spokesperson, the schedule has the disease during the past two till a high-level committee headed coronavirus pandemic, the dis- been released after consultations days, taking the total number by former Defence secretary San- trict authorities on Friday gave and deliberations with stake- of cases in the region to 239, jay Mitra will submit its final re- conditional nod to reopening holders in which the trade and officials said on Friday. port on distribution of assets be- of shops and commercial es- business associations and bodies Soldiers patrolling an area in the mountainous Ladakh Union Territory. File Photo, AbidBhat While 20 fresh cases of COVID-19 tween J&K and Ladakh UTs. tablishments in this capital city were sensitised about notified were reported from the twin In the letter the MHA has stated from Saturday. SOPs and the requirement for districts of Leh and Kargil on Press Trust Of India held another round of Major Navy Chief Admiral Karambir that “there is an urgent need for ap- The District Magistrate Shahid observance thereof and mea- Thursday, 104 new cases were General-level talks on the cur- Singh and Air Chief Marshal RKS portionment of certain amenities Iqbal Choudhary today notified sures to be put in place PAGE 02 reported on Friday which is also NEW DELHI: Defence Minister rent border standoff, official Bhadauria, they said. of J&K Bhawan at Chanakyapuri”. the largest single day spike in Rajnath Singh on Friday re- sources said. The Indian and Chinese According to the decision, main the Union territory P-02 viewed India's overall military The defence minister was armies are locked in an over five- entrance from Kautilya Marg of IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT nighttime Lashkar Militant Held preparedness in eastern La- given a detailed account on the week standoff in Pangong Tso, Jammu and Kashmir Bhawan, New restrictions on movement and all kinds of activities dakh and several other areas overall situation in eastern La- Galwan Valley, Demchok and Delhi is to be given to the Union “from 8 pm to 5 am as ordered last month shall remain In Shopian: Police along the Line of Actual Con- dakh by Army Chief Gen MM Daulat Beg Oldie. The two sides Territory of LadakhPAGE 02 valid till further orders,” Srinagar: Police on Friday trol in Sikkim, Uttarakhand Naravane at a high-level meeting have deployed additional troops claimed to have arrested a and Arunachal Pradesh even which was also attended by Chief along the LAC in North Sikkim, Lashkar-e-Taiba militant along as Chinese and Indian armies of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, Himachal Pradesh, PAGE 02 with arms in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Zahir Ahmad Khan was arrested by police IN THE OVER FOUR-AND-HALF-HOUR DIALOGUE, the and army’s 1RR after a cordon Indian delegation pressed for total restoration of status quo ante and and search operation was LoC Flare-Up: Woman Killed, Two Injured In Uri launched in Khujpora village immediate withdrawal of thousands of Chinese troops from the areas which India considers on its side of the LAC, the sources said. Observer News Service Magistrate (SDM) Uri Riyaz Ah- circumstances in Nambla village of Zainpora on the basis of mad Malik told Kashmir Observ- of the border town. credible information, a police SRINAGAR: A woman was killed er. Two more people, including He said that the injured peo- spokesperson said. He said and two other people injured a woman identified as Parveena ple have been removed to the incriminating material includ- ing, arms and ammunition were Labourers Rushed In To Finish Strategic Road on Friday as India and Pakistan Begum, wife of Shabir Ahmad hospital for treatment, while the recovered from his possession. troops traded heavy gunfire Sheikh were injured in similar villagers have been PAGE 02 As per police records he P-02 Observer Monitoring Desk the all-weather road con- has conveyed to China that the along the Line of Control (LoC) in necting Leh city to the Line road construction activity in Uri sector of Baramulla district Cross-LoC Shelling Rattles Poonch DGP Promotes 28 SRINAGAR: As the two nucle- of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh is in Indian territory prompting district authorities to ndia and Pakistan troops continued trading fire for the ar countries remain locked Eastern Ladakh, India Today and will continue. evacuate the villagers towards fifth consecutive day Friday along the Line of Control Sub-Inspectors in a tense stand-off, govern- reported Friday. The 255-km DSDO road, the the safer places. I(LoC) in Poonch district, a day after a soldier was killed Srinagar: Director General of ment is rushing labourers According to the report, report says is the latest flash- 48-year-old Akhter Begum, and a civilian hurt in Pakistan shelling in Rajouri district. Police J&K, Dilbag Singh on from Jharkhand to speed up China wants India to stop point between India and China wife of Zahoor Ahmad Chichi Pakistani troops shelled forward posts and villages along Friday ordered promotion of 28 construction work on the construction on the 255-km- at the Line of Actual Control was killed after a shell landed the LoC in two sectors of Poonch in violation of the cease- Sub-Inspectors to the rank of contentious Darbuk-Shyok- long Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat (LAC) in Ladakh. This road near her house in Batgran vil- fire agreement, officials said. Inspectors. These officers of Daulat Beg Oldie (DSDBO), Beg Oldie road. However, India connects Leh to the PAGE 02 lage during cross-LoC shelling There have been unprovoked cross-border firing by P-02 J&K Police Telecom have been on Friday afternoon, Sub-District promoted under PHQ order Number 1719 of 2020, an official spokesperson said. Among the SIs promoted include, Gurpreet Singh, Shivender Singh, Avineet Sharma, Saadut Ali, Cop Suspended For Delaying Sunny Sharma, Ankush Sharma, Rajouri Man Dies Of Covid-19, J&K Toll 53 Bilal Lone Issues AadilShafiNajar, HarinderJeet Chargesheet In Kashmiri SRINAGAR- A 65-year-old man Statement, Wants Singh, Karamdeep Singh, Nas- from Rajouri district, who had 156 More Test Covid-19 Positive eerHussain, Samerjeet P-02 tested positive for Covid-19, died Students Sedition Case at a hospital in Jammu on Friday, 56 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Jammu End To ‘Uncertainty’ JP Sharma Appointed Agencies file a chargesheet in the case.