Though no curfew was imposed in 10 districts in the Valley, except under two police stations in Srinagar, protesters clashed with security forces in parts of Srinagar.
Advertisement
Forces, they said, fired pellet guns and lobbed teargas shells to disperse the protesters.
However, reports pouring in from most of the places said anti-India protests broke out with angry youth taking to streets chanting slogans “Go India Go Back” and “We want – Freedom”.
Curfew lifted in held Kashmir but fresh clashes erupt was posted in World of TheNews International – https://www.thenews.com.pk on August 29, 2016 and was last updated on August 29, 2016.
However, schools, colleges and other educational institutions and shops remained closed due to the strike called by separatists groups who have asked people to lockdown all government offices, except essential services on Monday.
“Curfew has been lifted from the entire valley”. Two police officers have been killed and hundreds of government forces have been injured in the clashes.
At least five civilians were injured in clashes in Kupwara district.
Reports said that in Eidgah, scores of youth took to streets and erected temporary barricades on roads in this morning and were not allowing any vehicle to pass through the road.
Acute shortage of food and medicines has also been adding to the woes of the people already at the mercy of Indian police and paramilitary forces, who regularly abuse them and ransack their properties.
Restrictions on movement were still in place in some parts of Srinagar and Pulwama district where protests continued.
Meanwhile, the number of protesters injured in pellet firing continues to mount in the alley with more than 60 people, including women, sustaining pellet injuries in South Kashmir and Central Kashmir areas on Sunday where security personnel used force to foil pro-freedom and anti-India rallies, police and witnesses said. But the Old Srinagar areas are under heavy forces deployment with no civilian or vehicular movement.
Leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Interior Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti have repeatedly appealed for calm.
Advertisement
Elaborating, she said the threads need to be picked up from where these were left by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2005, when a serious effort was made both on external and internal fronts to resolve the Kashmir issue through a credible and meaningful dialogue and confidence building process.
