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Srinagar, Jul 22 : Life returned to normal in Kashmir after remaining affected due to restrictions and strike called by separatists against civilian killings and frequent restrictions and curfew in the Valley. However, shops and business establishments remained closed and traffic was off the roads for the second day today in central Kashmir’s Beerwah, where a youth was killed in security force firing yesterday. Official sources said that there were no restrictions in any part of Srinagar city. The situation was normal in summer capital, Srinagar, where restrictions under section 144 CrPc were imposed yesterday within the territorial jurisdiction of police station Khanyar, Nowhatta, Rainawari, M R Gunj and Safa Kadal in the downtown and SeK, Kralkhud in the old city and Maisuma and Ram Munshibagh in the civil lines to maintain law and order. Both the factions of the Hurriyat Conference and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, spearheading the agitation, demanding right to self determination, had called for strike and United National Military Observers (UNMO) office chalo to organise a sit-in after Friday prayers. All road blocks were removed by the security forces and shops and business establishments reopened this morning in the downtown and Shehar-e-Khas (SeK), where traffic was plying normally on all routes. Security forces and state police personnel, who were deployed around the historic Jamia Masjid, where Friday prayers were not allowed, have also been withdrawn. All business establishments, which were closed yesterday due to strike called by separatists, were working normally in the civil lines, including historic Lal Chowk, the nerve-centre of the summer capital, Budshah chowk, Hari Singh High Street (HSHS), Regal Chowk, Moulana Azad Road and Residency Road. Traffic was plying normally on all routes in civil lines, including Sonawar, where roads were closed yesterday to foil UNMO office march called by separatists. The situation was no different in uptown, where shops and business establishments opened early this morning while traffic was plying on all roads. Meanwhile, the situation has returned to normal in south and north Kashmir, where shops and business establishments opened and traffic was plying on all roads. Reports of normalcy were also received from central Kashmir districts of Ganderbal and Budgam, barring Beerwah, where normal life had remained affected. UNI
Srinagar, Jul 21 : All roads leading to United Nations Military Observers (UNMO) office for India and Pakistan in summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, were sealed to foil proposed separatist march this morning. Both the factions of the Hurriyat Conference (HC) and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has called for a general strike and 'UN office chalo' today to protest against the alleged Human Right (HR), particularly killing, torture and arrest of youths, in the Kashmir valley by security forces. Hundreds of security forces and state police personnel, holding automatic weapons and wearing bullet proof jackets were deployed on all roads leading to UNMO office at Sonawar in the heart of the city. Nakas had been established at Dalgate crossing on Sonawar road leading to UNMO office, headquarters of 15 Corps on Srinagar-Jammu national highway. Similarly, another naka was set up at Pantha Chowk and vehicles were being directed to take bypass route. However, due to strike very less number of vehicles were on the roads. Several other lanes and bylanes around the UNMO office had been sealed and closed with barbed wire. Large number of security forces were deployed at both gate of the shrine of Hazrat Syed Sahib, on the opposite side of the road near UNMO office. Both the factions of the HC and JKLF, spearheading the agitation, demanding right to self determination, had called for 'UNMO office chalo' to organise a Sit-In after Friday prayers. This was to registered a protest and deep resentment against killings of Kashmiris, allegedly by security forces, imposition of curfew and restrictions, beating arresting of people, mostly youths and putting separatist behind bar and confine them in their houses and disallowing them to offer prayers and attending funerals of friends and relatives. The separatists had also called for a complete shut down in the valley. UNI
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