Eight persons, including a woman, sustained bullet and pellet injuries when, according to police version, a group of protesters tried to attack an army camp at Saderkoot Bala in Bandipora.
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Ahangar said the security forces were firing tear gas and pepper spray at night to deter people from venturing outside. “As of now, no death has been reported”.
Jaitley refuted Congress’ charge that the state government had mishandled or failed to handle the bloody unrest triggered by the July 8 killing of 22-year-old Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, the social-media-savvy poster boy of new age militancy in Kashmir.
Schools, colleges and universities have been closed by the authorities till July 25 because of the prevailing law and order situation in the Valley.
Police and para-military personnel have been deployed in strength to maintain law and order. The Centre on Sunday rushed 20 more additional companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to Kashmir to strengthen its security grid.
Curfew and a shutdown called by the separatists paralysed normal life in Kashmir valley for the 10th consecutive day today.
Held Kashmir residents said on Tuesday they were facing shortages of prescription drugs, as parts of the region remained under curfew for the 11th day.As the overall death toll from days of violence rose to 45, shopkeepers warned supplies were running low because trucks were unable to reach them, while residents complained of being “caged” in their homes.
Internet service and mobile services remain suspended aggravating the miseries of the restrictions-hit people of the valley.
“People going to the airport will not face any hardship as air tickets were being treated as curfew passes”, the official added.
Only officials and government offices’s mobile services is working in the valley.
“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.
Also, the summer vacations for all schools in the Valley have been extended to July 24.
“We don’t know if it was really a mob attack”.
Addressing a meeting of senior bureaucrats in summer capital Srinagar on Monday, Mehbooba Mufti stressed on the importance of opening educational institutions as soon as possible to protect the future of students. “Forces seem to be resorting to disproportionate use of force while dealing with the protestors”.
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He said by placing whole Kashmir under strict curfew from last many days and now banning every mean of communication India and its stooges have actually beaten all previous records of oppression, suppression and tyrannical behaviors’. “There are set rules for dealing with crowds, such things seem to have disappeared in Kashmir”, he said. The call for showing solidarity with the victims of violence had been issued by local clergy and was endorsed by various political and social organizations.
