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Published from Srinagar | Jammu Regd. No. JKNP-5/SKGPO-2015-2017 Vol: 29 No.120 Pages: 18 Rs. 5.00 epaper.GreaterKashmir.comGreaterKashmir.com, GreaterKashmir.net, GreaterKashmir.news

FRIDAY, April 29, 2016 21, Rajab, 1437 AH 29th Year of publication

Resolve Kashmir as per political situation: UN panel head

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Apr 28: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is set to chair her maiden Uni-fied Headquarters (UHQ) meeting on May 10, just a day after darbar move offic-es open in summer capital Srinagar. The meeting will discuss crucial issues that include dealing with law and order situations, fol-lowing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), counter insurgency operations and also vacation of land under the use of forces.

“Chief Minister Meh-booba Mufti will chair the Unified Headquarters Meet-ing on May 10 in Srinagar. Deputy Chief Minister (Dr Nirmal Singh) will also attend the meeting,” an official document, avail-able with Greater Kashmir reads.

Sources said the Army top brass had requested the Chief Minister to con-vene a UHQ meeting in the wake of five civilian killings in Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kup-wara district recently.

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Apr 28: The supreme head of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front, Amanullah Khan, was laid to eternal rest amidst tears, sobs and sighs of grief at a graveyard in his hometown

in Gilgit Baltistan on Thurs-day.

A large number of mourn-ers including prominent personalities of political, social and religious parties of Gilgit Baltistan as well as the people from differ-ent walks of life converged

on the region's capital city to pay last respects to the deceased leader. Besides the chief minister of Gilgit Baltistan Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman the prayers were attended by Chief Judge of the GB chief court Sahib

PDC apathy limits Lower Jhelum’s power generating capacity

FCO relies on ‘ill-equipped’ labNo sample sent to accredited laboratories

ZEHRU NISSA

Srinagar, Apr 28: While the J&K Food Control Orga-nization has swung into action following directions of the High Court and announced a crackdown on milk adulteration, it has however once again banked on inadequately equipped Food Safety Lab here for test-ing samples instead of ensuring fool-proof scrutiny of samples outside the State.

As the state health machinery embarked on the ‘spe-cial drive’ to check the menace of adulteration in milk and milk products, the exercise seems to be headed nowhere. The samples lifted during the drive have been sent for testing to the Food Testing Laboratory in Sri-nagar, a facility with poor infrastructure and manpower. The department, as per the officials, is ‘following the rules’ in doing so.

Two days back, the High Court in a PIL on Food Safety said it was ‘shaken’ by the statement made by food commissioner that there is ‘no paraphernalia avail-able in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the mandate contained in provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Food Safety and Standards Act 2006.’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Apr 28: Jammu and Kashmir’s diminishing forest cover is not only facing a threat from smugglers but also the Government itself. In a shocking revelation that government departments are vandalizing the forests, the State Forest Advisory Com-mittee headed by Chief Sec-retary has pointed out how they are causing colossal loss to the State’s precious wealth.

Official documents in pos-

session of Greater Kashmir reveal that FAC has taken strong note of government departments violating the terms and conditions of sanc-tions accorded to them for using forest land for devel-opment projects.

In its observations, the FAC has noted that govern-ment departments are caus-ing massive damages to the forests owing to unauthor-ized deposition of muck in the forest land.

Amanullah Khan laid to rest in Gilgit

IANS

United Nations, Apr 28: UN Peace Building Commission chair Macharia Kamau has said that the primacy of poli-tics and the local conditions that drive any negotiations between India and Pakistan have to be "respected" while resolving Kashmir issue.

Answering questions at a news conference, Kamau said that the Kashmir issue "will be resolved in the context of the local domestic political environment between Paki-stan and India." Kamau is also Kenya's Permanent Rep-resentative to the UN.

India-Pak foreign secretary talks were informal: VK Singh

IANS

New Delhi, Apr 28: The talks between the foreign secretar-ies of India and Pakistan were merely a courtesy meeting - and not an "official dialogue" - where they discussed certain matters, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh said on Thursday.

The minister, responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, said: "I would first of all clarify that there was no official dialogue between our foreign secretary and Paki-stan's foreign secretary."

"The Pakistan foreign secretary was here to attend the Heart of Asia Conference and as an etiquette, there were some talks. But it should not be taken as official dialogue," he told the Rajya Sabha.

Mehbooba to chair first UHQ meet on May 10Law and order situation, counter-insurgency operations on agenda JK loses 1500 lakh units of energy

annually worth Rs 50 crores ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Apr 28: Despite provision for installation of fourth unit at the state-owned Lower Jhelum Hydro-power Project (LJHP) at Gantmulla here, the State Power Development Corporation (PDC) has failed to enhance its electricity generation capacity, resulting in loss of around 1500 lakh units of energy annually.

JK forests face threat from GovtCS-led panel censures departments for violating terms for use of forest land

D A RASHID

Srinagar, Apr 28: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday directed owners of food manufacturing and process-ing units to file affidavits indi-cating the manner in which they follow provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Food Safety and Stan-dards Act, 2006.

Hearing a Public Interest Liti-gation against food adulteration, a division bench comprising Jus-tice Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey also directed the owners of food processing units to file affidavits indicating that the food items they supply in the market are fit for human consumption.

While the bench directed the owners/MDs of food manufac-turing and processing units to file by next date of hearing affi-davits indicating as to how and in which manner they follow the provisions of the Act of 2006 and rules there under, they were also asked to provide informa-tion about the laboratories set up in their units, the equipment installed and the number of per-

sons having expertise in accordance with the Act of 2006 working in such laboratories.

“The owners of units who deal in dif-ferent kinds of milk to indicate in their affida-vits as to how much milk they are supplying each day, the sources of procurement of such milk,” the court ordered.

The Court also directed owners of these units to file undertaking before its Regis-trar Judicial satisfying that they will supply food items fit for human consumption to

consumers. “They shall also undertake that in

the event it is, prima facie, found that food item are adulterated, then their units may

be liable to be sealed.”It directed the hote-

liers, restaurant owners and shopkeepers to ensure that adulterated or unsafe food is not supplied to the consumers.

Meanwhile the court arrayed state government through its Chief Secretary, Commissioner Secretary, Health and Food Com-missioner Food Safety, Financial

HC seeks compliance of Food Safety LawManufacturing, processing units to file affidavits on safety of their products

Geelani calls for protests after Friday prayersSrinagar, Apr 28: Hur-riyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Gee-lani has called for peace-ful protest demonstra-tions on April 29 after Friday prayers against, what he said, contin-ued imprisonment of Handwara girl, govern-ment’s failure to arrest the troops involved in killing of five civilians in Handwara and Kup-wara, suspension of five employees and imposi-tion of restrictions on holding funeral prayers for JKLF co-founder Amanullah Khan.

‘Greater Kashmir inspired us’Srinagar: Pointing out that Greater Kashmir in its four successive editions published investigative reports on food adulteration that brought to surface startling facts, the High Court said: “These reports highlighted that on one hand there is non-implementation of the provisions of the Food Safety Act 2006 and the rules made there under as also non-availability of the fully equipped testing laboratories including the manpower required in terms of the afore said Act, and on the other hand the markets are being flooded with adulterated foods.”

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Ladakh potential alternate site for world’s largest telescope

PTI

New Delhi, Apr 28: The protests in Hawaii in the US against the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project, the largest to be ever built, may be India's gain as alternate sites are being explored which includes Hanle in Ladakh.

Farooq Shah is Admin Secy Floriculture

Srinagar, Apr 28: The J&K Government Thurs-day assigned the charge of the post of Administra-tive Secretary Floricul-ture, Gardens and Parks to Farooq Ahmad Shah.

Shah, already holding the charge of the post of Administrative Secretary, Tourism Department, has been assigned the addi-tional charge in order to synchronize various departments related to tourism sector. This was a long pending demand of tourism stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir. GKNN

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