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Published from Srinagar | Jammu Regd. No. JKNP-5/SKGPO-2015-2017 Vol: 30 No. 144 Pages: 18 Rs. 5.00 epaper.GreaterKashmir.com GreaterKashmir.com, GreaterKashmir.net, GreaterKashmir.news ﻣﺰاﺣﻤﺖٓ | ﺗﻌﻠﯿﻢ ﻣﺰاﺣﻤﺖ اﯾﻞ او ﺳﯽ: ’ﮔﻮﻟﯿﺎں را ﭘﯿﭽﮭﺎ ﮐﺮرﮨﯽ ﮨﯿﮟ‘12 10 ﻦ واﭘﺲِ ﺣﺮﯾﺖ ﮐﺎ ﭼﯿﻠﻨﺞ: ﮐﯿﺎ ﺟ ﺑﻮﺗﻞﻣﯿﮟﺟﺎﺋﯿﮕﺎ؟` 5 آج ﮨﯽ ﺧﺮﯾﺪﯾﮟ | ﻗﯿﻤﺖ ﴏفLatest issue has hit the stands Grab your copy! www.kashmirink.in AGreater Kashmir Publication Helpline 0194-2432159 9797051077 9906547267 your favourite furniture showroom New Showroom with New Offers Saheb Complex, Hyderpora By-Pass (Opp. Jamkash) Srinagar-190014 WEDNESDAY, May 24, 2017 27, Shabaan, 1438 30 th Year of publication Al-Fatah veteran Dr Aala passes away Prayers in-absentia in hometown Shopian today Farooq meets Vohra Srinagar, May 23: Opposi- tion National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday met Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra to discuss the cur- rent situation in the state and steps needed to ensure peace. Abdullah met Vohra at the Raj Bhavan here. They discussed the external as well as the internal secu- rity situation in the state, an official spokesman said. He said Vohra and Abdullah discussed issues relating to the external and internal security envi- ronment and the steps required to be taken for restoration of normalcy in the state. PTI Army ‘destroys Pak posts’ across LoC; Pak denies claim NISAR THOKAR/ MIR IQBAL Islamabad/Shopian, May 23: Renowned Kashmiri resistance leader and one of the pioneering men behind the Al-Fatah Movement Dr Abdul Aala passed away in Muzaffarabad on Tuesday. Aala, 70, who had been suffering from various ail- ments was put on ventilator at a local hospital in Paki- stan-administered Kashmir capital this morning after his condition deteriorated. Jaitley says such actions will bring peace in JK New Delhi/Islamabad, May 23: The Indian Army on Tuesday said it launched “punitive fire assaults” on Pakistani positions across the Line of Control, inflict- ing “some damage”, days after two of its soldiers were beheaded. It also released a video of the military action which showed some struc- tures in a forested area crumbling in a heap under the impact of repeated shell- ing. Pakistan Army, howev- er, dismissed as “false” its Indian counterpart's asser- tion of destroying its posts in the Naushera sector. Though the Indian Army did not give much opera- tional details of the “retrib- utive assault” across the A British viceroy also had said ‘three- districts-only’: Aiyar on Shah’s remark Says mistakes committed by Congress, NC, PDP in the past ABID BASHIR Srinagar, May 23: Senior Congress leader and former union minister Mani Shan- kar Aiyar Tuesday said BJP chief Amit Shah’s assess- ment of Kashmir situation is “totally wrong”, because a British viceroy had also claimed that India’s prob- lem was confined to three districts only. He also admitted that the “mistakes” committed by Congress at the Centre and regional parties like Nation- al Conference and PDP from time to time were largely responsible for the “Kash- mir problem”. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar organised by the Centre for Peace and Progress, ‘Kash- mir Issue, A Road Ahead’, Aiyar said, “Before the free- dom (of India) then British viceroy Lord Linlithgow also claimed that that dis- turbance was only in two to three districts in India. Now Amit Shah is saying same that there is distur- bance only in three districts in Kashmir, which is totally wrong.” He said India won free- dom despite Linlithgow’s claims. PTI/IANS/GKNN Srinagar, May 23: The army’s move to award its officer who used a Kash- miri man as human shield in April this year triggered a massive outrage on Tues- day, with the victim himself questioning whether drag- ging him for several kilome- ters was an act of bravery. Major Gogoi was on Monday awarded the Chief of Army Staff's Commendation Card for his “sustained efforts in counter-insurgency operations,” days after he tied a man to an army jeep during April 9 bypolls in the Srinagar-Budgam par- liamentary constituency, triggering massive outcry and condemnation. Ex-commander, diplomat slam Army SHABIR IBN YUSUF Srinagar, May 23: A former senior Army Commander and a diplomat have castigated Army for awarding Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi with the Army Chief’s Commendation Card. Gogoi’s action a human rights violation: PDP Jitendra, Naidu back army officer’s action New Delhi, May 23: The honour given to Army officer Major Leetul Gogoi, who had tied a man to a jeep as a human shield in Kashmir, is a maer of pride for all patriotic Indians, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Outrage after army awards officer for using human shield Victim asks: Is dragging a person for kilometres an act of bravery I saved human lives, claims Major Gogoi Amnesty calls it ‘disdain for human rights’ Amarnath yatra Home Secy Rajiv Mehrishi reviews security Stone-pelters, militants threat to pilgrimage: Ashok Prasad New Delhi, May 23: Stone-pelters and mili- tants pose equal threat to the annual Amarnath pil- grimage that begins June 29, a senior official said on Tuesday. More than 27,000 secu- rity personnel will be deployed along the route to ensure that all goes peace- fully, he said after a high- level meeting to discuss security arrangements for the pilgrimage to the high- altitude shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva. The meeting was chaired by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and attended by top offi- cials of the state and cen- tral governments. Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik react sharply Mainstream, separatist leaders call for dialogue ABID BASHIR Srinagar, May 23: In unequivocal terms, both separatist and mainstream leaders told New Delhi at a seminar on Tuesday that it should start a dialogue on Kashmir without delay. Prominent leaders on both sides of the divide were speaking at a seminar, ‘Kash- mir Issue, A Road Ahead’, Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi Srinagar, May 23: Kashmir’s resistance leadership on Tuesday reacted sharply to Army awarding Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi with the Commendation Card and termed it as an extremely “distressing” act. In a statement here, Chairman of Hurriyat Confer- ence (G) Syed Ali Geelani said: “The International Court of Justice should take suo-moto action against Major Leetul Gogoi who had tied a man to a jeep in Kashmir as a human shield in Budgam district on the polling day.” FIR against army has not been quashed: IGP Khan Rajiv Mehrishi See Home Secy...on Pg-10 See Outrage...on Pg-10 See A British...on Pg-10 See Al-Fatah...on Pg-10 See Mainstream...on Pg-10 See Gunfight...on Pg-10 See Army ‘destroys...on Pg-10 See Geelani...on Pg-10 See Ex-commander...on Pg-10 See Gogoi’s action...on Pg-10 Gunfight in Pulwama, search op in Tral SHOWKAT DAR/ IRFAN AMIN MALIK Pulwama/ Tral, May 23: Militants and government forces exchanged fire in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late on Tuesday evening but the operation was suspended due to dark- ness and would resume in the morning, even as forces conducted searches in Tral area of the same district, police said. A police official said following inputs about presence of militants, forces cordoned off Hakdi- pora village and launched searches. As the searches Mubashir Khan/GK CMYK

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Al-Fatah veteran Dr Aala passes away Prayers in-absentia in hometown Shopian today

Farooq meets Vohra

Srinagar, May 23: Opposi-tion National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday met Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra to discuss the cur-rent situation in the state and steps needed to ensure peace.

Abdullah met Vohra at the Raj Bhavan here. They discussed the external as well as the internal secu-rity situation in the state, an official spokesman said.

He said Vohra and Abdullah discussed issues relating to the external and internal security envi-ronment and the steps required to be taken for restoration of normalcy in the state. PTI

Army ‘destroys Pak posts’ across LoC; Pak denies claim

NISAR THOKAR/ MIR IQBAL

Islamabad/Shopian, May 23: Renowned Kashmiri resistance leader and one of the pioneering men behind the Al-Fatah Movement Dr Abdul Aala passed away in Muzaffarabad on Tuesday.

Aala, 70, who had been suffering from various ail-ments was put on ventilator

at a local hospital in Paki-stan-administered Kashmir capital this morning after his condition deteriorated.

Jaitley says such actions will bring peace in JK New Delhi/Islamabad, May 23: The Indian Army on Tuesday said it launched “punitive fire assaults” on Pakistani positions across the Line of Control, inflict-ing “some damage”, days after two of its soldiers were beheaded. It also released a video of the military action which showed some struc-tures in a forested area crumbling in a heap under the impact of repeated shell-ing. Pakistan Army, howev-

er, dismissed as “false” its Indian counterpart's asser-tion of destroying its posts in the Naushera sector.

Though the Indian Army did not give much opera-tional details of the “retrib-utive assault” across the

A British viceroy also had said ‘three-districts-only’: Aiyar on Shah’s remarkSays mistakes committed by Congress, NC, PDP in the past

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, May 23: Senior Congress leader and former union minister Mani Shan-kar Aiyar Tuesday said BJP chief Amit Shah’s assess-ment of Kashmir situation is “totally wrong”, because a British viceroy had also claimed that India’s prob-lem was confined to three districts only.

He also admitted that the “mistakes” committed by Congress at the Centre and regional parties like Nation-al Conference and PDP from time to time were largely responsible for the “Kash-mir problem”.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar organised by the Centre for Peace and Progress, ‘Kash-mir Issue, A Road Ahead’, Aiyar said, “Before the free-dom (of India) then British viceroy Lord Linlithgow also claimed that that dis-turbance was only in two

to three districts in India. Now Amit Shah is saying same that there is distur-bance only in three districts in Kashmir, which is totally wrong.”

He said India won free-dom despite Linlithgow’s claims.

PTI/IANS/GKNN

Srinagar, May 23: The army’s move to award its officer who used a Kash-miri man as human shield in April this year triggered a massive outrage on Tues-day, with the victim himself questioning whether drag-ging him for several kilome-ters was an act of bravery. Major Gogoi was on Monday awarded the Chief of Army Staff's Commendation Card for his “sustained efforts in counter-insurgency operations,” days after he tied a man to an army jeep during April 9 bypolls in

the Srinagar-Budgam par-liamentary constituency, triggering massive outcry and condemnation.

Ex-commander, diplomat slam ArmySHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, May 23: A former senior Army Commander and a diplomat have castigated Army for awarding Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi with the Army Chief’s Commendation Card.

Gogoi’s action a human rights violation: PDPJitendra, Naidu back army o�cer’s action

New Delhi, May 23: The honour given to Army officer Major Leetul Gogoi, who had tied a man to a jeep as a human shield in Kashmir, is a ma�er of pride for all patriotic Indians, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday.

Outrage after army awards officer for using human shieldVictim asks: Is dragging a person for kilometres an act of bravery

I saved human lives, claims Major Gogoi

Amnesty calls it ‘disdain for human rights’

Amarnath yatra

Home Secy Rajiv Mehrishi reviews securityStone-pelters, militants threat to pilgrimage: Ashok Prasad

New Delhi, May 23: Stone-pelters and mili-tants pose equal threat to the annual Amarnath pil-grimage that begins June 29, a senior official said on Tuesday.

More than 27,000 secu-rity personnel will be deployed along the route to ensure that all goes peace-fully, he said after a high-level meeting to discuss security arrangements for the pilgrimage to the high-altitude shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva.

The meeting was chaired by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and attended by top offi-cials of the state and cen-tral governments.

Geelani, Mirwaiz, Malik react sharply

Mainstream, separatist leaders call for dialogue

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, May 23: In unequivocal terms, both separatist and mainstream leaders told New Delhi at a seminar on Tuesday that it should start a dialogue on Kashmir without delay.

Prominent leaders on both sides of the divide were speaking at a seminar, ‘Kash-mir Issue, A Road Ahead’,

Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi

Srinagar, May 23: Kashmir’s resistance leadership on Tuesday reacted sharply to Army awarding Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi with the Commendation Card and termed it as an extremely “distressing” act.

In a statement here, Chairman of Hurriyat Confer-ence (G) Syed Ali Geelani said: “The International Court of Justice should take suo-moto action against Major Leetul Gogoi who had tied a man to a jeep in Kashmir as a human shield in Budgam district on the polling day.”

FIR against army has not been quashed: IGP Khan

Rajiv Mehrishi

See Home Secy...on Pg-10

See Outrage...on Pg-10

See A British...on Pg-10

See Al-Fatah...on Pg-10

See Mainstream...on Pg-10 See Gunfight...on Pg-10 See Army ‘destroys...on Pg-10

See Geelani...on Pg-10

See Ex-commander...on Pg-10

See Gogoi’s action...on Pg-10

Gunfight in Pulwama, search op in Tral

SHOWKAT DAR/ IRFAN AMIN MALIK

Pulwama/ Tral, May 23: Militants and government forces exchanged fire in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late on Tuesday evening but the operation was suspended due to dark-ness and would resume in the morning, even as forces conducted searches in Tral area of the same district, police said.

A police official said following inputs about presence of militants, forces cordoned off Hakdi-pora village and launched searches. As the searches

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