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Clashes erupt in north, south Kashmir, Srinagar after Friday prayers

June 25, 2016 Editor

Clashes erupted in north Kashmir’s Sopore town on Friday after some youth threw stones on forces personnel. According to witnesses, scores of youth assembled at Main Chowk and started shouting pro-freedom, anti-India slogans. They later began throwing stones at the police and paramilitary personnel deployed there. Witnesses added that the police and paramilitary forces in the area retaliated by lobbing tear smoke canisters. As the clashes intensified, the shopkeepers downed shutters of their shops and traffic was also affected. Police summoned reinforcements to the area and chased away the youth. No one was…

Curfew in parts of Srinagar, south Kashmir

October 22, 2015 Editor

South Kashmir’s towns of Anantnag and Bijbehara and capital Srinagar’s uptown areas were placed under curfew on Thursday. The move was made to contain rising violent protests in south Kashmir and to stop Shia mourners’ procession in the city. Tension was prevalent in various parts of south Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day today. Huge deployments of security personnel manned the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway and imposed strict curfew on the highway towns of Anantnag and Bijbehara. The death of Zahid Rasool Bhat, a trucker from south Kashmir’s Botengo village who…