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PM has no plans to host Iftar in SrinagarNew Delhi, July 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no plans to host an I� ar party in Srinagar on July 17 as was wrongly reported in sections of the media.

Highly-placed sources refuted reports in this regard as totally without basis and speculative.

BJP also denied that the prime minister had any plans to host an I� ar in Srinagar. PTI

GB PANT MESS: H&ME dept puts CM’s orders ‘on hold’

800-km road length to be macadamized on war-footing: Altaf Bukhari

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Shopian, July 8: Police have booked several minors in south Kashmir’s Shopian district for “pro-testing and pelting stones” on Deputy Commissioner’s office on past Saturday. The protests took place after cops allegedly failed to trace body of a student from a village pond.

According to locals, many students protest-ed after police failed to retrieve body of Class 12th student Sheeraz Ahmad Teli of Dagpora Shopian who drowned in a pond on Saturday. “When police failed to retrieve the body of the student, the stu-dents hit streets in protest and held a demonstration outside the DC Office. The protests intensified after the Deputy Commis-sioner refused to listen to students’ plea,” they said. “Some students then pelted stones at the DC office and dispersed later.”

Stone-pelting did not take place against the drowning incident. They pelted stones on forces as usual. We have booked some youth. There are also some minors and they have been sent to rehabilitation center while adults are lodged in Central Jail SrinagarSJM Gillani — IGP Kashmir Range

Srinagar, July 8: Minister for Roads and Buildings Syed Altaf Bukhari Wednesday said 800-km road length in Jammu and Kashmir is being black-topped on war-footing.

During his visit to Airport Road here to inspect ongo-ing macadamization work, he asked the executing agen-cies to “strictly follow fresh specifi cations on up-grada-tion of roads to ensure their durability.”

Stalls converting gynaecological OT into pediatric facility; GMC seeks ‘opinion’ from administrative department

ZEHRU NISSA

Srinagar, July 8: In an instance of administra-tive anarchy in J&K, the Health and Medical Educa-tion department has “put on hold” the Chief Minister’s orders on converting the gynaecological operation theatre at GB Pant chil-dren’s hospital here into a pediatric facility. The hos-pital is functioning without an Operation Theatre for pediatric use.

Last week, the Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed visited the hospital and directed the Health and Medical Education depart-

ment authorities to relocate the Gynaecological ward and convert the facility along with its operation theater into a pediatric surgical wing.

The order (No PS/Secy/H&ME/5098/2015)—copy of which has been accessed by Greater Kashmir—states there is a dedicated facil-ity for maternal care and gynecology available in the form of Lal Ded hospital in Srinagar which has been upgraded from 500 to 700 bed capacity.

In the order, the Secre-tary H&ME, MK Bhandari, had directed the District Commissioner, Srinagar to

get the issue relating to uti-lization of part of GB Pant

hospital for obstetrics and gynaecology immediately resolved so as to make the facility “an exclusive pedi-atric care center till a full-fledged pediatric hospital comes up in Srinagar.”

“You (DC) are according-ly requested to take neces-sary steps in this regard,” the order reads.

The order also directed Principal Government Medical College Srinagar “to start using this (gynae) facility only for pediatric care and ensure that any patient reporting for gynae-cological support at GB Pant is referred to LD hospital.”

Many minors booked in Shopian for ‘stone pelting, protests’DC says ‘we have decided to forgive them’; Parents say Tehsildar refused to sign bail papers on DC’s directions

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Muzaffarabad, July 8: Prime Minister of Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK) Chaudhry Abdul Majeed Wednesday warned Islam-abad against any attempt to convert Gilgit-Baltistan into a Pakistani province.

“Gilgit-Baltistan is part and parcel of Jammu and Kashmir and any attempt to merge it with Pakistan will deal a fatal blow to our stand (on Kashmir issue) in the light of UN resolutions envis-aging right to self-determina-tion for Kashmiris,” he told a press conference here.

Of late, some Kashmiri leaders have expressed seri-

ous concerns over the alleged move to convert GB as fifth province of Pakistan.

On Tuesday, PaK Presi-dent Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan also cautioned that any such step would be more damaging than dis-memberment of East Paki-

stan in 1971.“I call upon the Prime

Minister of Pakistan to avoid any such decision that does not fall in his competence,” Majeed said.

Recalling that GB was given administrative con-trol of Pakistan on temporary

basis, he advised Islamabad not to think beyond that. “On behalf of over 17.5 mil-lion Kashmiris, I warn you (Islamabad) to change your thoughts. Or else, there will be a severe reaction,” he said.

To a question about con-stitutional amendments, he said it was the responsibility of the (PaK) parliamentary committee to seek consent of the Prime Minister of Paki-stan and Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs to carry out this task “smoothly and amicably.”

“I do not know whether they have taken the permis-sion or not,” he said, adding, he had asked chairman par-liamentary committee Mat-

loob Inqilabi and leader of the opposition Raja Farooq Haider to talk to the federal government in this regard.

“They (opposition PML-N) say we should table the bill and they will manage sup-port of the federal govern-ment. Now the ball is in their (PML-N) court. Even if they want me to accompany them to Islamabad, I am ready,” he said.

Majeed maintained that the role and responsibilities of the government of Paki-stan under the UNCIP reso-lutions could not be negated.

“With this in mind, there is no harm in talking to them… It will not reduce our status,” he said.

PaK PM warns Islamabad on ‘altering status’ of Gilgit-Baltistan‘Area part of JK; Any attempt to merge it with Pakistan will deal a blow to our stand on Kashmir’

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Geelani, Malik, Mirwaiz to lead joint rally on July 13

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, July 8: Senior separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik Wednesday said they would lead a joint rally on Martyrs’ Day (on July 13) from Jamia Masjid to Martyrs’ Graveyard at Naqshband Sahib here. There will be no strike on the day, they said.

According to sources, the joint rally call was given after Mirwaiz sent separate letters to Geelani and Malik on Tuesday, sug-gesting no shutdown call be given on July 13 in view of Eid-ul-Fitr. “Geelani and Malik responded positively to this,” they said.

PaK PM Chaudhry Abdul Majeed at a press conference in Muza� arabad on Wednesday. GK photo

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