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th 24 Tuesday 06 April | 22 Shaban | 1442 Hijri | Vol:24 | Issue: 80 | Pages:12 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 3 CITY 7 WHY NATIONALISM IS A THREAT 5 STATE TO MULTILATERALISM SRINAGAR ADMIN WARNS PASSENGERS, COVID-19 SPREADING AGGRESSIVELY AS Loving your country is considered a virtue, PEOPLE TURN COMPLACENT: DAK DRIVERS AS COVID SOPS GO FOR A TOSS and for a patriot, love for the country should Public transport in Srinagar and elsewhere in Kashmir THINK not have any limit. Blind love has its own Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Monday said is posing a serious threat to passengers as Covid-SoPs pitfalls, and there is no convincing argument hospitals in Kashmir are witnessing a surge in severe are going for a toss forcing the authorities to issue a... except emotional ones to justify that.... cases of Covid-19 infection. “A few weeks ago... Widom PAGE 1 ANCHOR The past has no power ‘We Wake Up To See Our Courtyards Gone’: Kashmir’s Puzzling Homelessness over the present moment Malik Nisar has impacted us socially, eco- I met Ashraf on a sunny —Eckhart Tolle nomically, mentally.” spring day after trekking miles SHRIPORA (BARAMULLA): Broken houses, torn sheds uphill. The sun beats down on Sitting on the edge of his crum- and ruined gardens only make rundown rooftops, as I walk bled courtyard, Ashraf is look- this uplifting hamlet a shelled through the gravel roads of ing at the troubled terrain dot- village of Line of Control. But the hilly hamlet. Children play ted with decimated dwellings. even as the far northern zone hide and seek behind wrecked The crushed scene reminds has thawed with the fresh walls. Men and women collect Explosives Seized In one of a war movie, where an Indo-Pak ‘peace pact’, the land bricks of their broken houses. outsider steps in a lane filled beneath the villagers’ feet is re- Some elders nap near their Kupwara: Army with the bombarded houses lentlessly slipping in Shripora. wastelands. SRINAGAR: Army on Monday and devastated landscape. And this very fact is creating “Landsides have caused may- claimed to have seized 15 sticks But there’s no war going on And yet, “we often wake up to Ashraf, a post-graduate student “Since the land is crumbling an existential crisis for the dis- hem here,” Ashraf continues in of plastic explosives in Kupwara in Shripora village of Baramulla. see our courtyards gone,” says working as a plumber. in the middle of the night, it tressed country dwellers. his glum voice. district of Jammu and Kashmir, averting a tragedy. On receiving information that explosives might be exchanged near Jama Masjid of Tangdhar, a search was initiated Ex-GOC 15 Corps Bats Fresh Snowfall In Gulmarg by the Army bomb disposal team Health Dept Gears Up To Battle Coronavirus which led to seizure of explosives For Indo, Pak Talks supposedly being transhipped to 3 Day Rain Spell Begins the hinterland, an Army spokes- Leaves Of Doctors, person said. “In a major success to security forces More On P10 Medical Staff Cancelled in Kashmir Valley SSB Man Falls Agencies A meteorological department From Building, Dies Observer Monitoring Desk pandemic, all the leaves either sanc- official said thatSrinagar re- SRINAGAR: A Sashastra Seema tioned or under consideration at SRINAGAR: The higher reach- ceived 1.1mm of rainfall in the Bal (SSB) trooper died on Monday SRINAGAR: Amid surge in covid-19 Directorate level or at respective es of Kashmir Valley includ- last 24 hours till 08:30 a.m. He after falling from a building in Dig- cases, Director Health Services offices of CMOs and other DDOs in ing Gulmarg received light said that the mercury set- nibal area of Ganderbal district. Kashmir has cancelled leaves granted respect of doctors, nurses, paramedi- snowfall while rains tled at 7.2 degree Celsius, Jitendra Kumar of SSB 13 Battalion or under consideration to doctors, cal staff and other official of this Agencies lashed plains, officials the same as recorded SSB was critically injured when he nurses, paramedical staff and other of- Department are here by cancelled said on Monday. on the previous night fell down from the fifth floor of a ficials, except maternity or that taken forthwith except Maternity Leave SRINAGAR: Former Army General and senior The weatherman has which is above 0.8 de- building in Dignibal area on Mon- in view of extreme medical exigencies. and Leave taken in view of extreme defense expert Syed Ata Hasnain on Monday already issued an ad- gree Celsius normal for day, an official said. The injured “It is enjoined upon all the medical exigencies,” reads a circular said that dialogue was the only way out be- visory for moderate to this time of the year in the paramilitary man was removed by Chief Medical Officers/Medical issued by the DHSK Dr. Mushtaq tween the two neighbouring nations for cre- heavy rains or snowfall summer capital of J&K. his colleagues to More On P10 Superintendents and other Ahmad Rather. ation of a conducive and peaceful atmosphere in the Valley for three days Qazigund received Territorial Offices falling “Besides, all the Chief for the people. Speaking to reporters on the with main activity on Tuesday 0.6mm of rain during the time IED Recovered, within the jurisdiction of Medical Officers/Medical sidelines of an event, More On P10 and Wednesday. and it recorded More On P10 this Directorate that amid Superintendents and Defused In Khanyar upsurge of the covid-19 other More On P10 SRINAGAR: An Improvised Explo- sive Device (IED) was on Monday CJ Orders Virtual Hearing Of Cases NCW Creates Separate Cell For J&K, Ladakh recovered and defused by police in 89 Travellers Among Gujarati Tourist Khanyar area of Srinagar City, of- Agencies As per an order by Chief Press Trust Of India In a statement, it said the ficials said. A top official said that 442 Covid-19 Cases Dies Of Covid-19 Justice Pankaj Mithal, the special cell will deal with a suspicious steel box fitted with a Observer Monitoring Desk 60-year-old tourist from SRINAGAR: Jammu and hearing of cases in the High NEW DELHI: The National complaints received from wire was found in Khanyar locality Gujarat died due to Covid-19 Kashmir High Court has Court of Jammu & Kashmir Commission for Women the two Union territories on Monday evening. t least 89 travellers were among 442 Aat a hospital here, officials put its order regarding re- as well as in the District and has created a separate cell and will also look into the “An IED was found in the steel box, new cases of coronavirus reported said on Monday. They said that the sumption of physical hear- Subordinate Courts and to deal with issues in the development activities re- which was defused later,” he said. Ain Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, tourist was admitted on 2nd April ing in abeyance amid surge Tribunals shall be conduct- Union Territories of Jammu lated to women of these Notably, the traffic was stopped while the deadly infection also claimed two at CD Hospital after testing posi- in covid-19 cases. ed through More On P10 and Kashmir, and Ladakh. regions. More On P10 in the area, soon after the box was more lives, taking the total More On P10 tive. While he More On P10 found on the road. Officials said that after More On P10 Militant Associate Held Two Budgam NO RATION WITHOUT VACCINATION In Sopore: Police SRINAGAR: Police on Monday Woman Held Over claimed to have arrested a mili- Nowgam Attack Bandipora Authorities tant associate of The Resistance Agencies Front (TRF) from Sopore town of Faces Flak, Withdraw Baramulla district. Ihsaan-ul-Haq SRINAGAR: At least two Khanday of Faisalabad Sopore was Controversial Order young women have been arrested by a joint team of police, arrested by police from cen- Press Trust Of India army’s 22 RR and CRPF 179 at a tral Kashmir’s Budgam dis- check point at Model Town crossing, trict in connection with last SRINAGAR: Authorities in the Bandipora district of Sopore, a police spokesperson said week’s attack on the house Jammu and Kashmir withdrew within hours a contro- Monday. The checkpoint, he said of a Bharatiya Janata Party versial order making it mandatory for persons above was established on the basis of (BJP) leader in Nowgam 45 to get themselves vaccinated against COVID-19 specific information. More On P10 area of this capital city that to collect their government ration. An order issued left a policeman dead. by the Assistant Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Grenade Found 22-year-old Tabasum Consumer Affairs, Bandipora, earlier in the day had Along LoC In Poonch Maqbool and 23-year- asked consumers above 45 to get themselves vac- SRINAGAR: An old grenade was old Anjum Younis, both cinated against COVID-19 or forego their ration. recovered by army and police at residents of Kanihama in "Please remember that without producing Chapriyan Sawjian near Line of Con- Budgam were arrested covid-19 vaccination certificate, ration will trol (LoC) in Poonch, officials said by police in connection not be issued in any case," the order said. on Monday. They said the device is with a case FIR number However, it was withdrawn within hours. being destroyed by a bomb disposal 27/2021 under sections "The public notice...wherein it was in- squad. SSP Poonch Dr Vinod Kumar 307, 302, 392 of IPC and advertently made mandatory for persons confirmed to local news agency 7/27 of Arms Act, regis- aged 45 and above to vaccinate them- GNS the recovery of the grenade.