State government spokesman and Education Minister Nayeem Akhtar said the measures were aimed at saving lives and strengthening peace efforts.
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China said on Monday it was concerned about casualties in Kashmir and reiterated its position that India and Pakistan should resolve the issue through “dialogue”.
The fighting has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead since 1989 when the armed rebellion against Indian rule began.
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. On Monday, he said, the Day of Accession of Kashmir to Pakistan would be observed while on Tuesday Black Day would be marked to protest against the rogue army of India. Party leader Nalin Kohli said Pakistan is trying to gain political mileage out of the crisis.
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.
Police said four other persons were injured in the firing incident.
Jammu and Kashmir Police had raided the offices of at least two newspaper printing presses in Rangreth Industrial Estate in the outskirts of the city here barring them from printing the newspapers.
Police arrested Greater Kashmir Printing Press foreman Biju Chaudary and two other employees, it claimed.
The appeal was made through a joint poster message which reads: “People know how innocent Kashmiris that include youth, children and aged are being killed, media gagged, internet and cellular service and newspapers banned”.
For a third day, newspapers in Indian-held Kashmir have not hit the stands following a ban by the pro-India government in the region.
Most English dailies, however, continued uploading news onto their websites.
On Saturday night, for the first time the J&K Police raided newspaper printing presses in Srinagar. “This is one of the ways to contain the mayhem”, a senior local government official said on condition of anonymity. “Aatankwadiyon ke saath sakhti or civilians ke saath sympathy”, is the resolve of the government and it was reflected in the actions of the security forces dealing with a hard situation as of now, said the Home Minister.
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Meanwhile, the government extended the summer vacations of schools and colleges by another week given the tension in the valley. 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.
