Calling facility on mobile phones has also remained suspended during this period except for limited calling facility on post-paid mobile phones provided by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
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He said the situation across the Valley was so far peaceful.
Protests in Kashmir entered a ninth consecutive day Sunday amid a bloody crackdown by Indian security forces.
All normal activities of life have been paralysed by the ongoing cycle of violence that has claimed 44 lives, including 42 civilians and two policemen.
“Some miscreants then tried to snatch weapons from the army and tried to set vehicles on fire”, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
A police official said that this was necessitated to maintain law and order as tension gripped the Qazigund area of Anantnag district on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Monday evening when a mob attacked an army patrol party.
The state of Indian-held Kashmir has already imposed a curfew to stop people from gathering in the streets and stage more protests over last week’s killing of a popular leader Burhan Wani.
Other conditions include releasing all the political prisoners from prisons, detention centres and house arrest and restore their right to free political activity, allowing UN Special Rapporteurs and all worldwide human rights and humanitarian organisations to work in Jammu and Kashmir and announcing free political space for all the parties to the disputed Jammu and Kashmir. They also detained scores of printing press workers.
The Kashmir Reader, a daily English newspaper, said on its website Sunday that “the government has banned local media publications in Kashmir”, and called on its readers to “bear with us in this hour of crisis”.
He hoped these black days of oppression will soon come to an end and as per the law of nature, tyrants and oppressors will lose and the last victory will belong to those oppressed. The journalists also held a protest against the alleged “clampdown” and termed it as an “attack on the freedom of press”.
Meanwhile, the government extended the summer vacations of schools and colleges by another week given the tension in the valley.
Two others were killed and seven injured in the incident that took place on Sunday. While rubber pellets are not fatal, when they are fired by hydraulic pump action guns, as is the case now in Kashmir, they can cause blindness, disfigurement and damage to organs.
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This day is observed by Kashmiris living on either side of the Line of Control (LoC) and the rest of the world every year in renewal of the historical resolution of Kashmir’s accession to Pakistan passed by the people of the state. Many need multiple operations.
