SRI NAGAR: Complete shutdown is being observed today (Sunday) in the Indian occupied Kashmir as a protest against Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s visit to the territory.
According to the Kashmir Media Service (KMS), call for the shutdown was given by the Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik and supported by the Kashmir High Court Bar Association.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Srinagar, Ladakh and Jammu to lay foundation stones of different developmental projects. All shops and other business establishments are closed while traffic is off the road.
The occupation authorities have put many Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, Hilal Ahmed War, Javaid Ahmed Mir and Molvi Bashir Ahmed Irfani under house arrest or in custody to prevent them from leading anti-India demonstrations.
Moreover, authorities have taken stringent measures in the name of so-called security across occupied Kashmir. Indian police and troops have been deployed in strength in Srinagar, Jammu and other areas of the occupied territory.
The troops and police personnel have set up security check-points in different areas and conducting thorough checking and frisking of vehicles and commuters.
Unarmed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones have been pressed into service around the venue for thorough surveillance of the vicinity. Special commandoes have been deployed on the road stretch from Dalgate to the venue and along the famous Dal Lake.
Joint teams of the Indian police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force have also been deployed on the nearby Sulaiman hillock and Zabarwan mountain range.
Indian police and troops have seized hundreds of motorbikes in Srinagar and other areas.
The authorities have also suspended mobile internet and train services in the occupied territory.
