30072025-TTC-01.qxd 7/30/2025 12:46 AM 13 PLEA IN HC AGAINST LAND POOLING POLICY PUNJAB /thetribunechd Page 1 FAMINE UNFOLDING IN GAZA, WARNS UN WORLD CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 145 NO. 209 | 14 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 wednesday | 30 july 2025 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com No world leader told India to stop Op Sindoor: PM hits out at Cong Chandigarh lab rifle test helped ID Pahalgam attackers: Shah Accuses party of peddling Pak propaganda, bartering national interest Tribune News Service Aditi Tandon New Delhi, July 29 A midnight flight to Chandigarh to run ballistics tests on the arms seized from three terrorists killed in Dachigam, Srinagar, on July 28 and an early morning confirmation from scientists, all within a span of 24 hours, helped confirm their involvement in the Pahalgam attack, Union Home Minister Amit Shah told Parliament on Tuesday. Tribune News Service New Delhi, July 29 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday disputed US President Donald Trump’s claims of mediation in ceasing the May hostilities with Pakistan and said no world leader had told India to pause Operation Sindoor. In a blistering attack on the principal opposition party, Modi said the Congress was peddling Pakistan’s propaganda on the events of May 10, the day India halted its military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. This, he said, was done after successfully meeting the mission objectives of destroying Pakistani terror hubs that had nursed, trained and funded the perpetrators who killed 26 civilians in Pahalgam. The PM reiterated the national position that Operation Sindoor was underway and if Pakistan attempted another misadventure, India would respond in its own way, at its own time, not succumb before nuclear bluff and not distinguish between terrorists and their patrons any longer. Concluding a 16-hour debate on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha today, the PM, in his 102minute speech, mentioned a May 9 conversation with US Vice-President JD Vance who, he said, warned him of an impending Pakistan’s attack. continued on page 8 Tells Parl 3 perpetrators, all from Pak, killed in J&K PM Narendra Modi and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi speak during a debate in the Lok Sabha. PTI ❝ Ifyou(Pak)areunabletotakeeffective ofthisisthatafterOperationSindoor,a ❝ Ourdiplomacyhasfailed.Theproof action against terrorism, take India’s help. Our armed forces are capable of taking effective action on this side of the border as well as on the other. Rajnath Singh, DEFENCE MINISTER Pak General, whose hands were stained with blood, was having lunch with the American President. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, CONG PM used military to protect image:Rahul Ujwal Jalali Tribune News Service New Delhi, July 29 Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of leveraging the armed forces to bolster his personal image rather than to serve India’s strategic interests. Dares Modi to say Trump lied on truce Participating in the debate on Operation Sindoor, Rahul questioned the government’s intent and alleged that political optics were prioritised over military objectives. “Yesterday, Rajnath Singh said Operation Sindoor began at 1.05 am and lasted 22 minutes. The most shocking revelation was that at 1.35 am, India called Pakistan to inform them that we had hit only non-military targets and did not wish for any escalation,” he said, quoting the Defence Minister. Calling it an “immediate surrender continued on page 8 Shah gave this information while participating in the discussion on Operation Sindoor in Lok Sabha, where he said the three terrorists — Sulaiman, Afghani and Jibran — were killed in “Operation Mahadev” launched by the Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday. The minister said Sulaiman was a top Lashkar commander and security agencies had evidence of his involvement in the Pahalgam attack that left 26 persons dead. Afghan and Jibran, too, were “A-listed” terrorists. “I want to tell Parliament and the nation that those who murdered our citizens in the Baisaran valley, these three were among them and they were killed,” he said, congratulating the security continued on page 8 edit: mission successful c m y b MANDI FLASHFLOODS KILL 3 Flashfloods triggered by a cloudburst wreaked havoc in Mandi late on Monday, killing 3 persons, burying over 20 vehicles and inundating houses Three highways, including Chandigarh-Manali, are blocked in Mandi and 649 transformers and 98 water schemes affected across the state INSIDE JALANDHAR HOSPITAL DEATHS Technician away, ward boy was clueless as oxygen failed Tribune News Service Jalandhar, July 29 The three deaths at the Jalandhar Civil Hospital on July 27 took place because one technician in charge of the oxygen manifold system was on leave, a second technician had finished his morning shift and a ward boy, who was filling in for the second technician, was not an expert and did not know how to properly handle the system. Moreover, the trauma centre’s two oxygen manifold systems had jumbo oxygen cylinders attached, but these were not in the automatic Plea filed in high court for SIT investigation mode. The regulator knobs of the oxygen cylinders attached to both systems were shut and the ward boy, who had been left in charge by the technicians, was not able to work them properly. This is believed to have led to the technical snag at 6.35 pm on the fateful day. While one manifold system is installed right near the entrance of the trauma centre, the other has been put up at the back of the same wall continued on page 8 Will intervene if eligible voters left out in Bihar SIR: SC Satya Prakash Tribune News Service New Delhi, July 29 The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would step in if there was mass exclusion of eligible voters in poll-bound Bihar and if the Election Commission deviated from its June 24 notification on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Hearing on pleas against roll revision on Aug 12-13 A Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi stated, “We are overviewing the matter as a judicial authority. If there is mass exclusion, we will continued on page 8