The life in the Valley remained paralysed after Burhan’s killing, due to strike called by the separatists and curfew-like restrictions imposed by the authorities.
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The government on Sunday extended the school and college summer vacations for one more week till July 24.
“People going to the airport will not face any hardship as air tickets were being treated as curfew passes”, the official added.
Moreover, security cover provided to pilgrims undertaking Amarnath Yatra was also reviewed and steps were taken to ensure that militants do not target the ongoing pilgrimage, which will end on the second fortnight of August.
Government forces fired bullets at villagers who threw stones at them and tried to torch a police station in a remote village in the northern Kupwara area, close to the highly militarized Line of Control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan, a police official said. “Very reluctantly we have made a decision to take this step in order to prevent any further loss of life or property”, a government source said.
Senior operational commanders of the Army, CRPF and State police were holding regular meetings to assess the evolving situation.
Among the issues that the home ministry is expected to review over the next few days regarding the functioning of security forces is to provide specialised training and sensitisation programme for paramilitary personnel before they are deployed in the Valley and strict guidelines on use of pellet guns, which are said to be responsible for majority of the eye injuries to the protesters.
Around 38 people have been killed so far and several others injured after clashes between the protesters and security forces so far.
“Stray incidents of stone pelting were received from Kunzer in Baramulla, Eidgah in Srinagar and Saderkote Bala in Bandipora”. The highway has remained mostly deserted for the last eight days.
The Kashmir valley has been witnessing the violence after the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani.
Twenty more battalions of the CRPF were flown in to support the 2,800 troops sent to assist the State police last week.
Some of these additional forces will also be used as road opening parties (ROPs) in order to secure and facilitate the movement of security forces convoys which have been specifically targeted by the agitating protesters.
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Only officials and government offices’s mobile services is working in the valley.
