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GNS Srinagar May 17 : Former minister and member AICC Abdul Gani Vakil has stressed upon the chief minister Omar Abdullah to immediately empower elected Sarpanches and Panches failing which real purpose of holding elections to Panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir will become ineffective. He said that if Sarpanches and Panches are not empowered, they will get exploited by those elements who are all along been trying to destabilize the state government by exploiting the issue of empowering panchayats and hence if we fail to empower panchayats then we should be prepared to face the wrath of people which we cannot afford Vakil added. Addressing a party convention at Tulsi Bagh Srinagar, Vakil appreciated chief minister Omar Abdullah led coalition government for holding elections to Panchayats and described the same as a path breaking achievement in decentralizing powers. Elections to Panchayats, he said were aimed at empowering people at grass root level and have a good governance in place

GNS Jammu ,  May 17 :Jammu & Kashmir  Pradesh Congress Committee has condoled the demise of Shri Dharam Pal close relative of Former Deputy Chief Minister Pt. Mangat Ram Sharma of Nagri-Kathua. A condolence meeting was also held at Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu under the chairmanship of Shri Dharam Pal Sharma-Ex-MP Senior Vice President PCC, in which deep shock and grief was. expressed over the demise Shri Dharam Pal, General Secretary DCC Kathua. The meeting conveyed     heartfelt condolences to the     members of bereaved family and prayed for peace to the departed soul in heaven. President JKPCC Prof. Saifuddin Soz-MP in a telephonic message has conveyed his deep condolences to the bereaved family and prayed for eternal peace to the departed soul in heaven. Prominent among those who condoled     the death included S/Shri Thakur Hari Singh, S. Gurmukh Singh, Prem Sagar Aziz, Mula Ram, Lal Mohammad Sabir (Ex-Minister), MLC Ravinder Sharma,

GNS SRINAGAR MAY 17:   large number of people throughout the day visited Maisuma to condole Yasin Malik on the sad demise of his father marhoom ghulam qadir malik. many dignitaries  telephoned Yasin Malik and many visited his residence at maisuma.among those who telephonically  paid condolences include Pakistan Muslim League (N) chief, Mr Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's   minister Foreign Affairs Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, Minister of Interior Mr. Rehman Malik, Qazi Hussain Ahmed of  Jamat i islami pakistan Pakistan, Mr. Liaquat Baloch, JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman of Pakistan, Mr. Javed Hashmi, leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, The head of Pakistan People’s Party in the Senate Mr. Jehangir Badr , MQM leader Farooq Sattar,Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed Azad Kashmir, Azad Kashmir President Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob, Azad Kashmir Supreme Court Chief Justice, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan Mr. Jalil Abbas Jilani , JI leader Ghulam Nabi Nausheri, JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Sa

By Tahir Mushtaq. GNS JAMMU, May 17: It is not only the Ministers in Jammu and Kashmir, who are squeezing the public exchequer and spending money for renovation of their homes, but many of the senior bureaucrats are using taxpayers money for renovating their homes.  as per the official figures, between 2010 to 2012 lakhs of rupees have been spent on the renovation of government quarters of IAS offices which include Madhav Lal and SS Kapur Rs 1.96 lakh, whereas senior IAS officer Khurshid Ahmed Ganai, who is now retired,has spent Rs 4.18 lakh.  The cost on the repairing work B R Sharma's bungalow has cost the state Rs 4.47 lakh while government has spent Rs 4.62 lakh on Gazanffar Hussain bungalow for renovation.  On the residential complex of senior IAS officer, Suresh Kumar’s Rs 3.69 lakh has been spent between 2010-12.  Moreover the residence of Asgar Samoon the total expenditure was made by the government during the period was Rs 3.87 lakh and on the residential comp