PM, LG condole demise Excelsior Correspondent SRINAGAR, Sept 19: Mohammad Shafi Pandit, the first Muslim IAS officer from Jammu and Kashmir, passed away on Thursday. He was 80. Pandit was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi after he was detected with cancer about a month ago, his family said. Pandit’s body was flown to Srinagar in the afternoon and buried in the ancestral graveyard. Pandit was the first Muslim from Jammu and Kashmir to qualify the civil services examinations […]

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