People are facing acute shortage of essential items including medicines due to continued curfew. Shops and businesses remained shut even as at some places grocers opened their outlets.
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Both sides rule the Himalayan region in part but claim it in full and India has long accused Pakistan of arming separatist militants battling Indian forces in its part of Kashmir. India maintains more than half a million troops in the disputed regions.
“The Kashmir issue is left over from history”.
“The people, who provoke them to participate in protests and riots, are answerable to the people of Kashmir”, he added while reaching out to the youth.
On Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed that his country would continue extending political, moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiris.
He also said from tomorrow, newspapers will resume printing in the Valley and they can publish whatever they feel without any “censorship or ban of anykind”.
They were protesting the killing of at least 45 people and injuries to 3,500 during Indian forces’ firing on protesters since Burhan’s killing.
Separatist leaders continue to remain under house arrest and preventive detention in summer capital Srinagar.
Witnesses said that forces fired pellets on protesters at Rainawari in old city.
After banning mobile internet in Kashmir, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has now stopped Cable TV reception in the Valley.
The police raided newspaper offices in Srinagar on July 16, halting printing presses and confiscating printed papers due for delivery and briefly detaining printing and delivery staff, according to news reports. We will bring them on the right path…
Newspaper editors denounced the government action and termed it “gagging and enforcing emergency on media”.
Local newspapers failed to hit the stands for the second consecutive day today in curfew-bound Kashmir after the government’s clampdown on the media.
The Kashmir Times press, which prints many Urdu and English dailies has also been locked down.
Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent watchdog body, has called on the authorities in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir to stop harassing and obstructing the media and lift the ban on newspaper operations.
Anti-riot troops have used live ammunition, pellet guns and tear gas to disperse the crowds and calm down the outrage over the past few days.
“We salute the struggle of independence of our Kashmiri sisters and brothers”, Shehbaz Sharif said while urging the elected representatives and party workers to take active part in the functions of black day.
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The Home Minister said he had, on Saturday last, expressed desire to visit Kashmir and have a dialogue with the people directly.
