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Yasin Malik produced in TADA court, remanded to custody till June 11

HC seeks case diary from police

D A RASHID

Srinagar, June 6: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed police to produce case diary related to a 29-year-old case in which Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested on June 5.

A bench of Justice Muhammad Yaqoob Mir also sought records per-taining to the order of the executive magistrate whereby Malik was shifted

Malik’s arrest echoes in LA

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, June 6: The arrest of JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik by police last week echoed in the Legisla-tive Assembly on Monday, with the opposition slam-ming the detention after BJP demanded action against the separatist leader for alleged-ly assaulting a police officer.

During the Question Hour, BJP MLA from Now-shera, Ravinder Raina while describing Malik as “Aatan-ki Neta” (terrorist leader)

IFTAAR: 07:50 PMSEHRI: 03:34 AM

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1ST RAMADAN IFTAAR: 07:42 PM2ND RAMADAN SEHRI: 03:37 AM

Notice In view of holy month of Ramadan, all political, religious, social and business organizations and trade bodies should send/mail their press statements before 4 pm daily. Statements reaching after the deadline won’t be entertained. -- Editor

‘Article 371(A) a blessing for Nagas’Kohima, June 6: Nagaland Parliamentary Secretary Neiba Kronu on Monday said Article 371(A) of the Constitution is a blessing for the Nagas and is yet to be utilised properly.

The Article gives right to the Naga people over the land and resources of an individual. People in the state are landowners and not the government, he said.

Article 371(A) should not become a stumbling block in carrying forward development, Kronu said while launching a social

4 killed, 6 injured in Poonch road accidentCM expresses grief over loss of lives, prays for injured

SUMIT BHARGAV

Rajouri, June 6: Four per-sons died while six others were injured, four of them critically, after a Tata Sumo plunged into a gorge at Khanetar Top village in Poonch district, police said on Monday.

The vehicle (JK12-3777) was on way to Khanetar Top from Khanetar Tanda when it skidded off the road, resulting in spot

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, June 6: Chair-man of Jammu and Kash-mir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik was on Monday pro-duced before a TADA Court in Srinagar and remanded to custody till June 11.

Malik has been booked under a 29-year-old case in

which Abdul Gani Lone, Qazi Nisaar, Ghulam Muhammad Shah, Syed Ali Geelani and many others were also among the accused.

A JKLF spokesman said Malik himself pre-sented the entire situa-tion before the court.” Malik said in the court

Flats at Old Airfield for ‘Military Station soldiers’, says Army ‘We have nothing to do with Sainik Colony issue’

Army has right to construct quarters: Dy CM in House

SAQIB MALIK

Srinagar, June 6: J&K’s Deputy Chief Minister on Monday said “there is no activity in place with regard to Sainik Colonies”, but asserted that “Army has every right to construct quarters for its men.”

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah argue over issue of Sainik Colonies, in the Legislative Assembly on Monday. Mubashir Khan/GK

Pak aware of India’s efforts to change Kashmir demography: Aziz

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‘Islamabad not desperate to resume talks with India’

Islamabad, June 6: Paki-stan is "not desperate" to resume peace talks with India which has never opened a window of oppor-tunity for dialogue and goodwill with it, Pakistan's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said.

"It is a very strange thing to say as it was decided here on December 9 that the dia-logue will resume but then

the Pathankot incident occurred and everything vanished into thin air," Aziz told Geo TV yesterday.

His remarks came in response to Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar's statement that the window for dialogue with Pakistan was "slowly closing".

Aziz said that if India continues to repeat the old allegation of terrorism when it comes to the nego-tiating table, they must remember that terrorism is a part of the composite dialogue that Pakistan pro-poses, Dawn reported.

"They say that they will talk if we (Pakistan) make some progress on terrorism, but we say that they (India) should talk on all issues including Kashmir," Aziz said.

Aziz also said that Paki-stan was "not desperate for talks and there is no restless-ness on the Pakistani side for dialogue." "The whole world agrees that India and Pakistan should have com-posite dialogue," Aziz said, adding that if the region has to see peace, it has to see co-ordination first.

4 cops, 3 CRPF men injured in Pulwama blast

SHOWKAT DAR

Pulwama, June 6: Four J&K policemen and three CRPF personnel were injured in a blast inside a CRPF vehicle in this south Kashmir district on Monday, police said.

Initial reports, accord-ing to police, said the forces personnel were wounded in a grenade attack but police later claimed it was a “tear-gas grenade in the vehicle which exploded accidently.”

Ruet-e-Hilal panel sights moon; longest Ramadan in 3 decades for Kashmiri Muslims begins YASIR ASHRAF

Srinagar, June 6: Muslims across Kashmir Valley, like else-where in the Northern Hemi-sphere, are gearing themselves up for the “longest” Ramadhan in about three decades, begin-ning Tuesday.

Nothing will go through their lips from dawn to dusk for more

than 16 hours during the scorching heat and lon-gest summer days of the year. On Monday evening, Pakistan’s central Ruet-i-Hilal Chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman announced that moon was sighted in most of the areas of the country and the

faithful shall start observing fasts from Tuesday, the Dawn News reported.

Sehri or pre-dawn meal, according to various calendars,

on first day will end at 3:37 am and Iftari or breaking of fast will be at 7:42 pm,

and thus in the following 29 or 30 days, there will be a

difference of just seven minutes

between the first and last day of the holy month.

In Ramadhan, the ninth month of Muslim calendar, Muslims can have meals only twice in 24 hours—one early morning before sunrise and another after sunset. Ghulam Mohuddin, a man in his late forties, says Ramadhan of this year reminds him of his childhood days when he had

the first experience of fasting in scorching summer heat.

“I was around 12-years of age when I started to keep my fast. My mother was reluctant to wake me up for Sehri. But my willingness and stubbornness compelled her to prepare pre-dawn meals for me too," Mohud-din recounts.

Vohra, Mehbooba, Nirmal, Azad greet peopleSrinagar, June 6: Governor N N Vohra has greeted the people on the commencement of the holy month of Ramadan and hoped

‘Don’t set Kashmir on fire’Mehbooba slams Omar, Opposition, Media for ‘dishing out inflammatory reports on Sainik Colonies’

Omar hits back: ‘I know PDP’s role as Opposition’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 6: Former Chief Min-ister Omar Abdullah on Monday hit back at his successor Mehbooba Mufti over the issue of Sainik Colony, saying if he would follow footsteps of PDP as opposition, then “such a fire would set in the State which nobody could extinguish.”

“Everybody knows what was your role as opposition in my six years as CM. Whenever I spoke (as the Chief Minister) you always cre-ated disturbance. It is right that you would leave the House after creat-ing disturbances?” Omar told Meh-booba in the Legislative Assembly. The two leaders had heated argu-ment over the issue of Sainik Colony.

On the issue of Sainik Colo-nies in Kashmir, Omar said he had only sought clarifications from the Government. “I left the issue after Government responded. Why you are dragging me into the issue? If some lawmaker waves newspaper why you are dragging me into the controversy?” he asked Mehbooba.

Omar said he would not close his Twitter account or apologize for tweets which, he said, were in public interest.

“Don’t think I will delete my Twit-ter account which would give you some peace. It provides me a good platform to prick government. You jump on my simple tweets,” Omar said. “I am not going to apologize for my Tweets because they are in the public interest.”

Omar said he has never denied being part of the meetings for set-ting up of Sainik Colony but had never passed any order like the one

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, June 6: Reiterating that J&K Government was not setting up any Sainik Colony in Kashmir, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused the opposition and “some sections of media” of “trying to set Kashmir on fire.”

The issue of proposed colony for army soldiers was raised by Independent MLA Sheikh Abdur Rasheed who stormed into the Well of the Assembly, seeking a statement from the Government on the issue.

An agitated Mehbooba said there was “no truth” in the story. “The Government will have no problem if the stories are based on facts and figures. Please investigate whatev-er comes to you especially on such sensitive issues before putting the same in the public domain. If there is even an iota of truth in any such move, go ahead and publish it, but for God’s sake, please don’t give cre-dence to hearsays,” she said.

Referring to a news report, Mehbooba said: “I won’t take the name of the newspaper which

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, June 6: The Army on Monday distanced itself from con-troversial Sainik Colony issue, but admitted that flats being construct-ed at Old Airfield are for “soldiers of Military Station under Married Accommodation Project (MAP) going on at the All-India level.”

The Army’s clarification comes

in the wake of some media reports questioning nature of constructions going on at the old airfield. “The con-struction at the old airfield is going on defence land. It has nothing to do with any Sainik Colony. Sainik Colony is a state subject and Army has no role in it,” Army’s Srinagar-based spokesman, Lt Colonel N N Joshi told Greater Kashmir.

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KILLING OF JAMAAT MEMBER

HC issues notice to ex-Ikhwan leader Usman Majeed, associates

D A RASHEED

Srinagar, June 6: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued notice to Usman Majeed, former counter-insurgent-turned Congress legislator from Bandipora and his four former associates on a plea seeking probe by a Special Investigation Team into the killing of a man in the district in 1993.

“A bench of Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar issued notice to Usman Abdul Majid, son of Abdul Kabir Ganie of Garoora Bandipora, Nazir Ahmad Kochak of Kochak Mohalla, Hajin, Muhammad Maqbool of Hajin, Muhammad Iqbal Hazoori of Hajin Mohalla Bandipora, Abdul Rehman Shalla of Hajin,” petition-er’s counsel, P Imroz told Greater Kashmir.

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