The government on Sunday extended the school and college summer vacations for one more week till July 24.
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“Curfew shall continue in all the ten districts of the Valley”, a senior police official said.
Two protesters were killed on Monday when a violent mob attacked an army patrol in Qazigund area of Anantnag district. Three persons were injured in the incident. Mobile phone operations without any internet facility are, however, continuing on post-paid mobile phones provided by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).
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”.
As the Kashmir Valley continues to be on the boil, the death toll in the unrest triggered by the July 8 killing of killing of 22-year-old of Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani has gone up to 43.
Meanwhile, the separatists including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik have announced extension of the protest shutdown till Friday.
“While the Centre is closely examining the use of pellet guns in the Valley, the security forces have already been instructed to use them only when ‘extremely necessary” and that extra precaution should be taken to fire the pellets below the waist.
The federal cabinet, during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif last Friday, made a decision to observe July 19 as “black day” against the Indian forces atrocities in Indian-held-Kashmir (IHK). Police said the protesters tried to storm a security camp.
The authorities in Indian-held Kashmir continued to impose curfew and other restrictions on Kashmiris on 9th consecutive day on Sunday to prevent them from protesting against the killing of protesters by Indian security forces.
The services were restored last night, an official said.
Kashmir, a Muslim-majority Himalayan region, is held by India and Pakistan in parts and claimed by both in full.
“The name is “Pakistan”, but its acts are “na-pak” (not pious)”, Singh said.
“Instead they want the situation to be reported by only the Indian media who look at Kashmir only the prism of “national security” and never question the right of the Indian soldier to be in Kashmir”.
“Kashmiris are our own people”. “And it was obvious to all of us that the sort of the stone throwing on the street, the intifada of the street, was accompanied by an intifada of the mind, you know, a sort of a churning, a release”.
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Invoking Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s famous remarks of “Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriyat and Insaniyat” (kashmiriyat, democracy and humanity), he said “If there is any place for Kashmiriyat in “Jamhooriyat” (democracy), it can be only on the basis of “Insaniyat” (humanity) and not “Haivaniyat” (devilish acts). Those believing in Kashmiriyat and Insaniyat, can not give space to haivaniyat.”.
