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Holiday tomorrowSrinagar, June 19: The holiday on account of Guru Hargobind Ji’s birthday shall be observed on 21st June 2016 (Tuesday) instead of 5th July 2016 (Tuesday) in all government offices and educational institu-tions of J&K.

The Holiday shall be observed under the Nego-tiable Instruments Act-1881 as well, an official spokesman said.

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Autonomy resolution droppedNC says it would have exposed PDP

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, June 19: A resolution seeking imple-mentation of autonomy resolution passed by the State Legislature in 2002, was dropped during the draw held to finalize the resolutions to be taken up in the Legisla-tive Assembly, sources told Greater Kashmir on Sunday.

Officials in the LA Sec-retariat said the resolu-tion couldn’t make it to Business of the House in

Coalition ‘compulsion’ halts re-constitution of PDC’s BoD

Indo-Pak relation must to solve issues: Swaraj‘There are forces which do not want good ties between two countries, PMs’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 19: India on Sunday said Pakistan has not refused to allow an NIA team to visit that country to probe the Pathankot air-base attack case and just sought "more time" even as it made it clear that talks and terror cannot go hand-in-hand.

External Affairs Min-ister Sushma Swaraj also said the "warmth and ease" in relationship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif can help resolve complex

issues between the two neighbours.

Asserting that India wants to resolve all vexed issues with Pakistan through talks, Swaraj said the government was pur-suing a three-point formu-la to deal with Islamabad the focus of which is that talks cannot go on if Paki-stan does not take action to contain terror.

"First, we want to solve every issue thor-ough talks. Second, talks will be between India and Pakistan and no third country or party will be its part. Third, terror and

Differences between PDP, BJP on chairperson’s position hit Corporation functioning

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, June 19: The ruling alliance partners, PDP and BJP, are locked in a silent battle over re-consti-tution of Board of Directors of J&K’s Power Develop-ment Corporation, hitting the functioning of the state’s only power generation body.

Sources said the position of BoD Chairman is the bone of contention between the allies, with BJP pushing for controlling the Corporation by getting its party leader and Power Minister Nirmal Singh anointed as its Chair-man even though the posi-tion has been traditionally held by the Chief Minister.

“The Board had to be

reconstituted after the elect-ed government assumed the office. But it is not hap-pening owing to difference between the alliance part-ners on who shall be the next Chairperson of the Board,” the sources said.

The differences between the alliance partners cropped up soon after the Government formation in March 2015 with BJP sticking to its stand on the Chairman’s position, leading to the delay in the re-constitution of the BoD which prompted the State Law Department to write to Singh that the Corporation would become liable to pen-alty of Rs one lakh and a fine of Rs 5000 per day under the Companies’ Act if the Board wasn’t reconstituted.

The then Principal Secre-tary Power Sandeep Nayak, sources said, also brought the issue of reconstitution of the Board into notice of the

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All eyes on Anantnag by-polls as Mehbooba attempts to retain fort

Militant killed in Pampore gunfight, says policeEfforts on to catch two remaining militants: SP Awantipora

KHALID GUL

Anantnag (Islamabad), June 19: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti faces the challenge of her political career as she is seeking berth in the J&K Assembly from Anantnag con-

stituency which is going to by-polls on June 22. The election is seen as a test of her decision to ally with the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party for the second time after her father and former Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed died in

January this year. With just three days left for the polls, her Peoples Democratic Party as well as oppo-sition National Conference and Congress have intensified the cam-paigning which is scheduled to end on Monday.

The road may not be that easy for the PDP chief considering the “resentment” against her party after its alliance with the BJP, but with PDP already leading the coali-tion government in J&K, she may

ZAHID MAQBOOL

Pampore, June 19: A mili-tant was killed in an encoun-ter with forces in Ladhoo village of south Kashmir’s Pampore area on Sunday eve-ning, police said.

A police official told Greater Kashmir that a joint team of Army’s 50 RR, 110 Bn

CRPF and SOG Awantipora launched the operation after acting on a tip-off about pres-ence of a group of militants in an orchard in Ladoo.

“When we approached the orchard behind the Milk Factory, three militants fired on the forces party, leading to an encounter,” the police official said.

He said in the ensuing gun-battle which started at 5:05 pm and lasted for about 55 min-utes, a militant was killed who was later identified as Khubaib alias Abu Qasim of Punjab Pakistan.

Superintendent of Police, Awantipora, Shridhar Patil said militants continued

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