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Separatists call for week-long strike
.jpg) [Daily Excelsior] Separatists today issued fresh week-long protests giving no relief to the people from strikes which have paralysed life in Kashmire since July 8.The separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yaseen Malik today issued fresh call for week long protests and strikes. The fresh protests were issued after a meeting of stakeholders held yesterday in which traders, transporters and businessmen had sought relief from continued strikes. In the meantime, shutdown was observed across Kashmire for 124th day today during which situation largely remained peaceful. Shops, commercial establishments, educational institutes and other offices were closed across Srinagar. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... heavy movement of private vehicles, auto-rickshaws and passenger cabs’ as well pedestrians was seen in Civil Line and uptown areas of the city. Hundreds of vendors had set up their stalls in Lal Chowk area and large numbers of shoppers were also seen buying winter garments. In Old City, hundreds of security forces personnel were deployed in five cop shoppe areas of Srinagar’s Old City ‐ MR Gunj, Nowhatta, Safa Kadal, Rainawari and Khanyar ‐ since early morning. Stone-throwing festivities erupted at Nowhatta area of Old City in the evening. Police resorted to teargas shelling and chased away the protesters. The situation in the area later returned to normality. Clashes erupted at Harmain area of south Kashmire’s Shopian district and at Ajas area of Bandipora district. A police front man said: "situation across the Valley remained normal till filing of this report. During the day people were seen busy in their daily activities of life with vehicular traffic plying normally on roads. Shops and other business establishes were open. Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... police in order to prevent any untoward incident hampering normal life and flow of traffic continued with adequate deployment on some vulnerable points. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-10 |
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