4 STATE Greater KashmirSRINAGAR | October 21, 2013, Monday

Rasm-e-ChaharumWith profound grief and sorrow we inform the sad demise of our beloved father Abdul Ahad Sheikh R/o Habak Naseem Bagh, Srinagar who left for heavenly abode on October 18, 2013. His Rasm-e-Chaharum will be observed today at 10:00 AM at our ancestral graveyard Tulbagh, Mukdam Mohalla, Habak Naseem Bagh, Srinagar.

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This is a rare event in the history of health care system in J&K that a successful coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABS) was performed on my father namely Ghulam Hussain Gilkar in the Khyber Medical Institute Sgr. on 23 Sept 2013. We are highly thankful to all concerned at KMI especially management, Mr. Shahnawaz & Dr. Shuja CVTS Surgeon Dr Ajay Kaul Dr Ajmeer Singh, Dr Syed Asrar, Dr Aijaz Mansur, Dr Farooq , Dr Showkat Shah (ICU Doctors)We pray to Almighty for all success in future.

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C O N D O L E N C EKashmir Private Diagnostic Centers Association expresses heartfelt condolence to Ishtiyaq Ahmad Qadiri, whose mother expired recently after a brief spell of illness. Qadri has always worked for the welfare of medical fraternity. KPDCA stands in full support of Qadiri’s endeavours in resolving medical employees crises. We pray for departed soul and may Allah place her in Jannat Ul Firdous.From: Chairman KPDCA Mohammad Amin Rangrez

Remembrance2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED

FATHER, QASIM ALI RATHERAs time passes on, we miss you more forever in our thoughts and hearts. May your soul rest in peace…. We miss you every moment of our lives. Your presence continues to surround us. You still live in hearts and minds… your memories live on forever in our hearts… you are and will always be remembered by your sons, daughter and other family members.MTM RAJA BEGUM, BASHIR AHMAD, GH MOHD, NISAR

AHMAD, FIDA HUSSAIN, SHAHEENA, MUZAFARIMAM BADA ROAD GULSHAN ALI SHALIMAR SRINAGAR

Rasm-e-ChahrumIt terribly shocks us to inform all our sympathizers that Rasm-e-Chahrum of our beloved mother Mir Raja Begum W/o Haji Gh Mohd Gilkar R/o Umer Colony (A) Opposite Hamza Lane-4 (Kanatar) (Mugul Road) who passed away on 19th October is being held on Tuesday 22nd October 2013. Fateh Khawani will take place at Ancestral graveyard Mallteng (near CD Hospital) at 10 am. Ladies are requested not to bring any kind of eatables with them. May God is shower his blessings upon her soul.

GRIEF STRICKENALI MOHD (ALI AS DEEN ), AIJAZ AHMED (SONS)

TAWOS KHURSHEED (GRANDSON)

EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDEA very large number of Muslims both males and females offered Eid prayer organized by Salfia Masjid Sour in the nearby park. The management expressed deep gratitude to the Hon’ble Commissioner Dr G.N.Qasba, Director Parks Sh Sunil Misri and Pran Nath Dullo Sahib for lending their every possible assistance which they made on this occasion.The management hope that both the departments will continue such assistant on such occasions. May god bless them all.

President Masjid Salfia Soura Srinagar

Palhalan turned into concentration camp: Geelani Restrictions lifted

in Palhalan

Govt wants to rule through barrel of gun: Er Rashid

Srinagar, Oct 20: Expressing grief over the death of a police person-al at Palhallan Pattan in the recent past, President Awami Ittihaad Party (AIP) and MLA, Engineer Rashid today said that “continuous arrests of youth and the atrocities being committed on people by forces is strongly condemnable.” “Government instead of understanding the aspirations of the young generation of Kashmir is keen to rule the state through the barrel of gun. It will be only any inhuman person who will not feel the pain of the family of the deceased police personnel who lost his life in Palhalan but at the same time police has no moral or legal right to punish the common masses just to give an outlet to its anger.” Stating that the state has to be governed by the rule of law, Rashid said, “no law permits any government to inflict terror on its people.” “How come life of a soldier who gets handsome salary can be more precious than that of a common man as right to live is the fundamental right of every human being on earth,” he said.

Shaikh-Ul-Aalam (RA) International Cultural Centre in offing

Condemns arrest of TeH activists

Srinagar , Oct 20 : C h a i r m a n of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Sunday accused the

armed forces of turning Pal-halan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district into a “con-centration camp.” “Since last five years, the armed forces and Task Force have virtually converted Palhallan into a concentration camp and whenev-er anything untoward happens, the people in Palhallan are punished for none of their fault. The supply lines for water and electricity are snapped, and even they are not permitted to purchase food items for themselves nor they are allowed for farming or to look after their orchards,” Geelani said. Paying tributes to people of Palhallan for their devotion and conviction for Islam and freedom movement, Geelani said, “we are closely monitoring the situation and in no case would leave them alone.”

“Hurriyat has decided that in case the curfew restric-tions are not lifted we will call a state wide protest against this. The suppressive mea-sures and continuous imposi-tion of curfew has developed a serious situation in Palhallan. Continuous imposition has created a tense situation in Palhalan,” he said demanding immediate lifting of curfew restrictions from the area. Geelani who is also chair-man of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) strongly condemned arrest of its activists and demanded their immediate release. “Since 2010, Palhallan is continuously being made target by armed forces and our workers are being harassed and arrested,” he said. He strongly condemned the detention of various TeH members including Abdul Gani Bhat, district president Baram-ulla and Amir Hamza secretary Department of Dawah He said Mir Hafiz Ullah, dis-trict president Islamabad, Muham-mad Shaban Dar, district President Kulgam and Muhammad Yousuf Falahi district President Shop-ian have also been “unlawfully detained. Geelani alleged that the resi-

dences of Abdullah Nasir presi-dent, Tehsil Pattan and Showkat Ahmad (Kulgam) are continu-ously being raided, though they were recently released from jails. He said district president Kulgam is presently serving deten-tion in Kathua jail. “However his residence was raided by armed troops and his family members were harassed during the raid,” he said. He strongly condemned the alleged police excesses in Baram-ulla Commenting over the “continuous crackdown” against the party workers, Geelani termed it as “sheer frustration” of authorities. Home Ministry of India with its forces and police is trying to scare us of their might and arbitrary powers, and they wish that we should surrender and give up our struggle. They are living in a fool’s paradise. Such repressive measures won’t deter us from pursuing the freedom struggle,” Geelani said. “Tehreek-e-Hurriyat is not an underground organiza-tion, nor any of its activities are hidden from the public eye. By denying a political space, the authorities are playing a dangerous game,” he said.

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Baramulla, Oct 20: After continu-ous restrictions for past four days, life returned to normal in Palhallan area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Sunday. Authorities had enforced restrictions in the area after a police vehicle came under heavy stone pelting from a group of youth resulting in death of its driver last week. Deputy Com-missioner Baram-ulla Khawja Ghulam Ahmad visited the area on Sunday and interacted with the business community and senior citizens. Sources said the delegation urged the DC that the common people of the area should not be target-ed by enforcing strict restrictions.

"If some youths are involved in stone pelting that does not mean that the entire population should be targeted. From the past four days, the locals are confined to their homes following the strict restrictions. Such restrictions only add to woes of the common people," the delegation told the DC. The DC said that the interaction was “aimed to restore the peace” in the area. “And the people of the area can play important role in this regard. There are some youth who are bent upon to disturb peace in the area by way of resorting to un-necessary stone pelting. The glaring example is the inci-dent on Eid, which left one cop dead" the DC told Greater Kash-mir.

Srinagar, Oct 20: Under-scoring the relevance of Shaikh-ul-Aalam, Hazarat Shaikh Noor-ud-din Wali’s (RA) message for eradicat-ing prevailing evils from the society, the Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Abdul Rahim Rather has urged for in-depth research on the socio-religious and cultural dimensions of the life of this revered sufi saint. “This will enable common masses especially youth to acquainted with his teachings, which has a universal appeal,” Rather said speaking at a special programme organized in memory of Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) at the Univer-sity of Kashmir, T h e p r o g r a m m e was organized by the Markaz-i-Noor, Centre for Shaikh-ul -Aalam (RA) Studies in collabo-ration with the Regional Directorate of Indian Council for Culture and Research (ICCR). Rather called for translation of the poetry of Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) into other languages so that his message and ideals about life and

religion are propagated world over. He congratulated the Markaz-i-Noor especially Prof. Margoob Banihali for translating the oldest avail-able manuscript (Reshina-ma) on poetry of Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) compiled by Baba Naseeb-u-din Ghazi about 400 hundred years ago. Hoping that the Centre will continue the transla-tion work of the poetry of Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) with fervor, Rather assured that the Government will pro-vide all possible support for this purpose. He said Government has acquired about 20 Kanals of land adjacent to upcoming Degree College Complex at Charar-i-Sharief for con-struction of a state-of-the- art Shaikh-ul Aalam (RA) Auditorium. He asked the concerned authorities of KU, Markaz-i-Noor and all other stake holders to sug-gest measures for its better utilization for research and propagation of the teach-ings of Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA). Speaking on the occa-sion, Vice-Chancellor KU, Prof. Talat Ahmad, said

that the Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) Chair has now been converted into the Centre for Shaikh-ul-Aalam Stud-ies where nine scholars for M. Phil and Ph.D pro-gramme have been regis-tered so far. He said KU will pro-vide extra fellowships to the Centre for Shaikh-ul-Aalam Studies in near future, adding that setting up of a Shaikh-ul-Aalam (RA) International Centre is also under consideration for which DDC Srinagar has identified four kanals of land near Zakura in the vicinity of the varsity. The Minister for H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n , Muhammad Akbar Lone, JnanPith Awardee Prof. Rahman Rahi, Chair-man Markaz-i-Noor Prof. Bashar Bashir, Director Academic Staff Farooq Fayaz, Prof. Margoob Ban-hali, Farooq Nazki, (Retd) Justice B.A. Kirmani, consultant education J&K Government, M.Y. Taing, Regional Director ICCR Ayaz Rasool Nazki, Prof. Shad Ramzaan, Aziz Hajni and ACR Pulwama Shah Faisal were also present on the occasion.

KU, ATREE to develop action plan for restoration of Dal LakeSrinagar, Oct 20: Kashmir Uni-versity (KU) and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Envi-ronment (ATREE) have decided to develop an action plan for manage-ment and restoration of Dal lake. This was decided in a meeting chaired by Vice-Chancellor KU Prof. Talat Ahmad. An KU spokesman said the meeting was held with an objective to discuss different contours of an envisaged project that aims to evolve a deliverable strategy and action plan for restoration and effective management of Dal lake. Director ATREE Dr. Ganesan Balachander was present in the meeting. ATREE is one of India’s premier think tanks in the field of Environment and Development The basic objectives of the said project includes critical assessment of the state of health of Dal lake system initially through survey of standard literature, review of state and national policy and law documents followed by extensive consultations with key state government officials, research-ers, political and community leaders, and community institutions.. The meeting was coordinated by Dr. Manzoor A Shah, Department

of Botany KU. The meeting aimed to form an interdisciplinary team of natu-ral and social scientists to review the proximal and ultimate causes of dete-rioration of fabulous Dal lake despite ‘huge investments and interventions’ The meeting was also attended by the Registrar KU Prof. Zafar A Reshi, Prof. M. S. Bhat, Head Depart-ment of Geography and Regional Development, Prof. Shakeel A Romshoo, Head Department of Geology and Geophysics, Dr. Tariq Ahmad, CCAS KU , Dr. Siddartha Krishnan, a sociologist at ATREE, Dr. Ghulam Jeelani, Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Er. Mushtaq Rather from NIT Srinagar. Dr. Ganesan Balachander, the Director ATREE, was earlier the Ford Foundation Representative for South Asia (2003-2008) and in 2010 was appointed as a founding Consortium Board member of the CGIAR to oversee reforms in the 15-centre global consortium dealing with public sector research on food security, poverty alleviation and ecosystem resilience. Prof Talat Ahmad assured all possible support for this interdisciplinary project

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