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Resistance leaders remember victims of Gaw Kadal massacre Amid shutdown, police imposes restrictions in Lal Chowk, Maisuma; Cops ‘beat Ahsan Untoo to pulp’

Police sketches ‘plan’ to ‘tackle’ stone-peltingCategorization of stone-pelters making it easy to identify them, says officer

Rains, snow likely from today, says weatherman Mess on Srinagar-Jammu highway worsens, commuters face hardships

Uproar in Assembly over PSA detentions; MLA suspended, recalled

Dachigam sheep farm biggest threat to Hangul: Minister Lal Singh

MUKEET AKMALI

Jammu, Jan 21: As endan-gered Hangul is facing a threat of extinction, Min-ister for Forest, Environ-ment and Ecology Choud-hary Lal Singh on Satur-day said the existing sheep breeding farm at Dachigam in Srinagar is “the biggest risk” to the wildlife in the Sanctuary.

“In the first place I don’t understand why the sheep breeding farm was estab-lished at the Dachigam Sanctuary,” Singh said, responding to Cut Motions on Demand of Grants of Forest Department in the Legislative Assembly.

“Ironically, sheep and goats from outside state are being reared there which are a threat to the Hangul as they attract predators,” he said, adding: “I am against the idea of (having) a sheep farm inside the

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Jan 21: With intensity of street protests triggered by the killing of Hizb commander Burhan Wani gradually coming down in Kashmir, the J&K police is now working on a strategy to prevent stone-pelting by youth in future, sources said on Saturday. To begin with, they said, the “multi-pronged strategy” focuses on “categorization of youth, students and minors.”

According to police sources, a comprehensive strategy is being put in place where separating stone-pel-ters into various groups that include A+, A, A+B, minors and students, is underway. “The cases of stone-pelters are being reviewed as per their zones. Srinagar has been divided into North, South, East, West and Haz-ratbal zone. The cases are reviewed keeping in view the stone-pelting incidents

Pak releases Indian soldier who crossed LoC

Amritsar, Jan 21: Paki-stan on Saturday released Indian Army soldier, Sepoy Chandu Babulal Chavan, who had inadvertently crossed the LoC and was in the captivity of the neigh-bouring country since Sep-tember last year.

Pakistan defence and border authorities handed over Chavan at the Wagah-Attari joint check post to Indian border guards on Saturday, Border Security Force (BSF) officials said here. He was handed over to Army authorities after his return to India.

Chavan, 22, of 37 Rash-triya Rifles, was taken into custody by Pakistan Army after he inadvertently crossed the Line of Control

Antarctic ice shelf at brink of breaking apart

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Jan 21: Amid com-plete shutdown in Lal Chowk, Maisuma and other adjoining areas here on the 27th anni-versary of Gawkadal massa-cre, a number of resistance leaders on Saturday managed to reach the place where the carnage took place and pay tributes to the victims. The leaders pledged to take the mission of martyrs to its logi-cal conclusion and urged New Delhi to “shun its stubborn-ness and accept the ground realities” in Kashmir.

Pertinently, Lal Chowk, Maisuma and their adjoin-ing areas observed a com-plete shutdown on Saturday

on the call of joint resistance leadership to mark the Gaw Kadal massacre in which 52 civilians were killed and 250 others injured by forces on January 21, 1990.

The police had already detained JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik and lodged him in Central Jail Srinagar while senior Hurriyat Conference (M) leader Hilal War was lodged in police station Kothibagh. War, according to a spokes-man of his party, has been sent to judicial remand till January 22.

Witnesses said police on Saturday placed barricades and spools of concertina

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SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, Jan 21: Kashmir is bracing for another spell of rains and snow, even as the Divisional Administration on Sat-urday said arrangements have been put in place to meet any eventuality.

“We are expecting isolated rains or snow from Sunday,” local Meteoro-logical department officials here told Greater Kashmir. “There will be fairly widespread rains or snow on January 23 and widespread rains or snow over next three days (from January 24-26).”

The officials said hilly areas includ-ing Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg will witness heavy snowfall. “Some routes including the Jammu-Srinagar highway might be closed for traffic,” they said. Talking to Greater Kashmir, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan said around 400 machines are a stand-by mode for clear-ance of snow, de-watering and other purposes across Kashmir.

“Control Rooms have already been set up at all district headquarters to ensure

early clearance of snow from the roads. This arrangement will continue till the winter ends,” he said.

Khan claimed that enough ration has been dumped in plains as well as hilly areas. ‘HIGHWAY OPEN’

The Srinagar-Jammu high-way remained open on Saturday but only Jammu-bound vehi-cles—including those carrying passengers who were stranded at various places on this side of Jawahar tunnel, including at Qazigund—were allowed to ply on the highway. “No fresh vehicle was allowed from Srinagar or Jammu today,” an offi-cial said. “There are still Jammu-bound vehicles, including those carrying passengers, stranded on the highway.”

“The condition of the road is not that good. The road is slippery,” Senior Superin-tendent of Police (Highway), Sanjay Kotwal told Greater Kashmir. He said because of the bad road condition, the situation is messy.

On Saturday, Greater Kashmir received scores of calls from highway travel-ers who alleged that they are stranded on road for hours together. They said they were stopped at many places where there was no arrange-ment and even children had to remain without food.TEMPRATURES

Meanwhile, the night tem-peratures across Kashmir and Ladakh region continued to settle below freezing point, MeT officials said here.

Srinagar recorded the minimum of minus 3.3

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London, Jan 21: A massive chunk of ice in Antarctica is on the brink of breaking off and is now hanging on to the parent ice shelf by a thin thread just 20 kilometres long, say scientists who found a rift that has grown by another 10 kilometres since the year

began. Latest satellite data shows that the rift is likely to lead to one of the largest ice-bergs ever recorded.

The imagery was acquired on 19th January by European Space Agen-cy's Sentinel-1 satellites. It

Pak asks India to suspend work on hydropower projects in JK

‘Eviction’ of Gujjars: Lal Singh under fire

UMER MAQBOOL

Jammu, Jan 21: J&K’s Forest Minister Lal Singh on Saturday came under attack in the Legisla-tive Assembly over eviction of Guj-jars and nomads from forestlands in Jammu province, with an oppo-sition lawmaker telling him to “not show your writ on the communal and regional lines.”

The Minister faced attack from the opposition when Grants of Forest Department were discussed in the House. CPI (M) leader and MLA Kulgam Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami asked the Minister to “safeguard the human relation-ship in Jammu.” “Don’t disturb

UMER MAQBOOL

Jammu, Jan 21: The detentions under Public Safety Act during the 2016 mass uprising in Kash-mir rocked the Legislative Assem-bly on Saturday after MLA from Valley’s Langate constituency, Er Abdur Rashid stormed into the Well to protest against the deten-tion of a “minor” and others under the law. Rashid, who repeatedly entered the Well, was suspended for two days from the Assembly for disrupting its proceedings but was later recalled to the House.

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THERE WILL BE FAIRLY WIDESPREAD RAINS OR SNOW ON JANUARY 23 AND WIDESPREAD RAINS OR SNOW OVER NEXT THREE DAYS (FROM JANUARY 24-26)

SOME ROUTES INCLUDING THE JAMMU-SRINAGAR HIGHWAY MIGHT BE CLOSED FOR TRAFFIC

Islamabad, Jan 21: Paki-stan's two parliamentary committees in rare joint resolution asked India to immediately suspend work on two hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir and agree on the constitution of an arbitration court to resolve the water dispute.

National Assembly's Com-

mittee on Foreign Affairs and Water and Power held a joint sitting in Islamabad yesterday to discuss water issues with India.

A joint resolution unani-mously adopted in the meeting asked India to halt the con-struction work, Dawn reported.

The resolution also called

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THE RESOLUTION ALSO CALLED UPON THE WORLD BANK TO CONSTITUTE A COURT OF ARBITRATION TO ADJUDICATE ON ISSUES RAISED BY PAKISTAN AGAINST INDIA'S ONGOING CONSTRUCTION OF KISHANGANGA AND RATLE HYDRO PROJECTS.

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