As unrest enters third week, Valley is frozen in time

It doesn’t matter anymore what hour of the day it is in Kashmir as thousands of residents spent another day on Friday under curfew and restrictions with signal to their mobile phones remained turned off on orders of the state government. In the latest spell of turbulent days in Kashmir, there are no rush hours. The traffic signals obediently flash green and red to deserted roads. A few traffic policemen sit idly on a pavement in the Lal Chowk, the commercial nerve centre of Srinagar where markets have remained shut…

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