Srinagar,
Sept 26: Life returned to normal today after remaining crippled due to
curfew-like restrictions in the Shehar-e-Khas and downtown and strike elsewhere
in the Valley on a call by Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation against
summoning of its president Mohammad Yaseen Khan by National Investigation
Agency in terror funding case. The KMTF strike call was also supported by
transporters and both the factions of the separatist outfits, spearheading the
agitation, demanding right to self-determination. The separatists were also
protesting against summoning of Kashmir University scholar Aala Fazili by the
NIA. Both Khan and Fazili appeared before the NIA at New Delhi yesterday where
they were questioned. Police said restrictions under Section 144 CrPC have been
imposed in the areas falling under the jurisdiction of five police stations of
M R Gunj, Nowhatta, Khanyar, Safa Kadal and Rainawari yesterday as a
precautionary measure to maintain law and order were lifted. There are no
restrictions in any part of the Kashmir valley, police said. Roads blocks on
Nallahmar road from Nawa Kadal to Khanyar have been lifted. The barbed wire had
also been removed and additional security forces and state police personnel
withdrawn. The main gates of historic Jamia Masjid, stronghold of moderate HC
chairman Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq, which were closed yesterday to prevent
people from entering there are open today. Shops and business establishments in
the SeK and downtown also reopened this morning. Transport was also plying
normally on all routes while educational institutes, which were closed
yesterday in the restricted areas recorded full attendance today. Reports of
normalcy were also received from other parts of the Kashmir valley, where
business and other activities resumed this morning. However, additional
security forces remained deployed at some sensitive places to prevent any law
and order problem. The NIA has summoned Khan and Fazili yesterday at New Delhi
in connection with terror funding. The investigation agency has so far arrested
about a dozen separatists and businessmen besides a photo-journalist in connection
with alleged terror funding from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The Agency has registered a formal FIR after National Front Chairman Nayeem
Ahmad Khan allegedly confirmed during a sting operation that separatists were
receiving funds from abroad for financing militancy and stone pelting in
Kashmir valley. Khan was later suspended from hardline HC. However, the KMTF
said that they are not against the NIA investigation. But, they said summoning
people to Delhi when the investigation agency has office in Srinagar was
nothing just a harassment. The office bearers of the trader body, who staged a
dharna in Srinagar, said Mr Khan was summoned just as a witness still he has to
travel to Delhi when the NIA could have recorded his statement in Srinagar. UNI
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