Jammu and Kashmir: Id in shadow of clampdown
Deccan ChronicleSrinagar: A Srinagar-based TV journalist emotionally greeting his mother ‘Id Mubarak’ on live TV as he could not meet her despite staying in Srinagar, conveyed the helplessness of Kashmiris who have been placed under a curfew and communications blackout. The dampened Id-uz-Zuha celebrations in the Valley due to the virtual lockdown since August 5, ended up on a frustrating note for locals with strict curfew-like restrictions being imposed from the crack of dawn. “We are on the field monitoring the situation and it is completely peaceful,” J&K DGP Dilbagh Singh told Deccan Chronicle. The entire political leadership, including former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, continued to be under house arrest though some reports suggested that they had been allowed to offer prayers. “There are credible inputs of violence on Monday,” a CRPF official based in Srinagar said without specifying whether they are anticipating stone-pelting incidents or a terror strike.
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