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LAST PAGE...P.8 FRIDAY C SEPTEMBER-2020 KASHMIR M 23 Y SRINAGAR TODAY : SUNNY Contact 18 : -0194-2502327 K FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS & YOUR COPY OF Maximum : 29°c SUNSET Today 06:33 PM Minmum : 14°c SUNRISE Humidity : 44% Tommrow 06:16 AM 29 Muharram-ul-Haraam | 1442 Hijri | Vol: 23 | Issue: 205 | Pages: 08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com / kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver Postal Regn: L/159/KO/SK/2014-2016 News Digest Pakistan To LADAKH FACE-OFF Grant G-B Full China Occupying Naeem Akhtar Released 3 Militants, Woman Killed Provincial Status 38,000 From Detention ISLAMABAD- Pakistan has de- Srinagar- PDP leader and former cided to elevate Gilgit-Baltis- Sq Kms In Ladakh: DM minister Naeem Akhtar on Thurs- In Batamaloo Encounter tan’s status to that of a full- Press Trust Of India day said he has been set free by fledged province, a Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir authorities media report on Thursday quot- NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Oppn Demands after 407 days in custody since the ed a senior minister as saying. Rajnath Singh on Thursday Restoration Of abrogation of Article 370 in August According to a report in the asserted that no force in the last year. "After 407 days of deten- Express Tribune, Minister for Status Quo tion am informed that I am free world can stop Indian soldiers Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan to move about. Thank you rulers from patrolling the country's pposition leaders Affairs, Ali Amin Gandapur, for small mercies while you inflict border in Ladakh region. in the Rajya Sabha larger tragedies on our land," the on Wednesday said that Making a statement in Ra- Oasked the govern- PDP leader said in a sarcastic Prime Minister Imran Khan jya Sabha on the situation in ment on Thursday to tweet. Akhtar was among several would soon visit the region eastern Ladakh, he said China restore status quo ante mainstream politicians, including and make the formal an- has amassed troops on the as on April this year on three former chief ministers of the nouncement to elevate Gilgit- border and in response India the India-China border. Cutting across erstwhile state -- Farooq P-02 Baltistan to the status of a has made appropriate counter P-02 full-fledged province with all deployment. FIR Filed After Police constitutional rights. China, he said, made "pro- what China says and does. Gandapur said Gilgit-Baltis- vocative military manoeuvres" "Unki kathani aur karni alag Pelted With Stones tan would be given adequate on August 29/30 in an attempt hai (their actions are at variance Srinagar: Police on Thursday filed representation on all constitu- to change the status quo in the with their words)," he said FIR after a team on way to arrest tional bodies, including the Na- south bank area of Pangong Lake The skirmishes and face-off a tractor driver was challenged by tional Assembly and the Senate. in the Ladakh region at a time in the last few months with a 'mob' at Chichloora of Kunzer After consultation with all when the two sides were en- China, that left 20 Indian sol- area in the district. A police of- stakeholders, the federal gov- gaged in military and diplomatic diers dead and inflicted heavy ficial told news gathering agency ernment has decided in prin- talks to de-escalate tensions. casualties on the Chinese sides GNS that police station Kunzer ciple to give constitutional lodged the FIR (77/20) in connec- The defence minister said as well, were primarily over the rights to Gilgit-Baltistan, the tion with a law and order incident there is a mismatch between issue of patrolling PAGE 02 minister told reporters. which took place at Chichloora STATE FORCES leaving Batamaloo after a deadly pre-dawn gunfight Kunzer. “A police party was on India has conveyed to Paki- Both Sides Should Focus On way to arrest one 'suspected' ended on Thursday morning. KO Photo Abid Bhat stan that “the entire union ter- tractor driver, who had fled from ritories of Jammu and Kashmir Easing Tensions: MEA the Naka point at Chachloora Observer Monitoring Desk and Ladakh, including the ar- ndia on Thursday said China should sincerely work with Kunzer," the official said, adding, All Slain Militants Local: DGP eas of Gilgit and Baltistan, are it for complete disengagement of troops at the earliest “On the way some mob attacked SRINAGAR: Hundreds of people an integral part of the country Ifrom all friction areas including Pangong lake and take on police party P-02 on Thursday protested in Bata- ammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) by virtue of its fully legal and steps to de-escalate the situation in eastern Ladakh. maloo area of this capital city Dilbagh Singh said that three militants were killed in irrevocable accession.” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava LMD Slaps Fine On Two after a pre-dawn encounter in Jthe encounter and all were locals from south Kashmir. India has said “the Govern- said India hoped the Chinese side would strictly P-02 the area left three militants Addressing a press conference at the Police Control Room ment of Pakistan or its judi- Petrol Pumps and a woman dead, while two (PCR) Srinagar, the DGP said that in the early hours of the ciary has no locus PAGE 02 Srinagar: The Legal Metrology CRPF personnel, including an day, state forces, while acting on a lead, zeroed in P-02 Department on Thursday slapped officer, were injured. a fine of Rs.10, 000 each on two Around 2:30 am, state forces spetrol pump after they were found launched a cordon and search Pulwama Type Attack Averted: Police issuing 30 ml and 40 ml short fuel operation in Firdous Abad local- ammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday claimed to have in every 5 litre measure. During a 22 Soldiers Died unearthed huge cache of explosive material in South Admin Orders Probe Into routine inspection of several petrol- ity of Batamaloo following spe- Kashmir’s Awantipora area. pumps of city Srinagar under the cific information about presence J At High Altitudes In a statement, police said that acting on tipoff about the supervision of Controller Legal of militants, officials here said. presence of militant of outfit Jaish-e- Mohammad, Police, Metrology Department J&K M. According to police, be- Sopore ‘Custodial Killing’ In 3 Years: GoI Akbar Wani one nozzle among sev- sieged militants turned down 42 RR and 130 BN CRPF conducted a joint search P-02 eral nozzles at two different filling surrender offer and opened Observer Monitoring Desk SRINAGAR: At least 22 soldiers stations were found issuing 30 ml fire on joint column of forces lice claim that she was killed in at us,” he added. have died while serving at high and 40 ml short fuel in every 5 litre resulting in injuries to a CRPF the cross-fire between state forc- Police has identified slain SRINAGAR: A day after a youth’s SHOPIAN ‘FAKE ENCOUNTER’ altitudes including Siachen Gla- measure, an official spokesperson Deputy Commandant Rahul es and the besieged militants. militants as Zakir Ahmad Paul mysterious death triggered strong Results Of DNA cier, the world’s highest battle said. “The functions of P-02 Mathur and a woman identi- A local news agency KNT of Shopian, Ubair Mushtaq Bhat protests in Sopore, the district ad- ground, the government in- fied as Kousar Jan. quoted Kousar’s son Aqib Rey- of Kulgam and Adil Hussain ministration on Thursday ordered a Samples Expected formed on Thursday. Youth Found Dead “The lady succumbed to her az as saying that he and his Bhat of Awantipora saying all magisterial inquiry to probe the alle- Soon: DGP In 20016, there were six casu- In Sopore injuries on the spot while as the mother were fired upon by the belonged to Hizbul Mujahideen. gations of the family that the youth ammu and Kashmir Direc- alties while the number stood at injured CRPF Officer was shift- government forces when they Pertinently this is the fourth was killed by police in custody. tor General of Police (DGP) eight each in 2018 and 2019 re- Srinagar: A youth was found dead ed to hospital for treatment for were retreating from the area encounter in the capital city this The Deputy Commissioner JDilbagh Singh on Thursday spectively. inside his home in Sopore town his injuries,” police said. where they run a bakery shop. year. Earlier similar exchang- Baramulla Dr G.N. Itoo on Thursday said the test results of the DNA “Causes of death in Siachen of north Kashmiri’s Baramulla However, the son of the de- “My mother died instantly es took place in Nawakadal, directed Additional District Magis- samples collected from the Glacier and other Super High Al- district on Thursday. 28-year-old ceased woman contested the po- after government forces fired ZoonimarPAGE 02 trate Baramulla Muhammad Ahsan family members of three men titude Areas range from those di- Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat was found Mir to conduct enquiry into the al- from Rajouri, who were P-02 rectly related to High Altitude like dead under mysterious circum- leged custodial killing. stances inside his home in Mus- THE LADY SUCCUMBED TO HER INJURIES ON THE SPOT High Altitude Pulmonary Oedama limpeer locality of Sopore, official “……In exercise of powers con- ulla is order to conduct a magisterial (HAPO) and Pulmonary Thrombo sources said Thursday. They said while as the injured CRPF Officer was shifted to hospital for treatment ferred upon me as district magistrate enquiry in the above mentioned case Embolism (PTE) to other general a police team took the body in “for his injuries,” under section 176 of Criminal Proce- so as to ascertain the causes and cir- causes,” Shripad Naik, minister of custody to conduct post-mortem dure, Mr Muhammad Ahsan Mir, KAS, cumstances leading to the death of state for Defence, told parliament and to ascertain the cause of additional district magistrate Baram- Mr Irfan Ahmad Dar PAGE 02 in a written reply.