{"id":24538,"date":"2020-04-27T20:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=24538"},"modified":"2020-04-27T20:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:56:34","slug":"govt-extends-high-speed-internet-ban-till-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24538","title":{"rendered":"Govt extends high speed internet ban till May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: The Government on Monday ordered the continuation of the ban on high-speed internet in Jammu and Kashmir till May 11.<\/p>\n<p>In a latest order issued by the Home Department, the reason cited for the decision includes spurt in militant violence, the launch of new outfits and \u201cwell-founded\u201d apprehensions of the \u201cfield agencies\u201d regarding \u201cenhanced efforts by Pakistan for recruitment in the (militant) ranks as well as infiltration attempts, which heavily depend on high-speed internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch restrictions have been placed in order to curb uploading, downloading, circulation of provocative videos, guard against rumor-mongering, fake news, prevent the use of encrypted messaging and VOIP services for infiltration and coordinating (militant) activities, and defeat the nefarious designs from across the border to propagate (militancy,\u201d reads the order issued here by Principal Secretary Home department, a copy of which lies with Global News Service.<\/p>\n<p>It said the misuse of data services by \u201canti-national elements\u201d has the potential to scale up violent activities and disturb public order, \u201cwhich has till now been maintained due to the gradual easing of restrictions on access to the internet while ensuring that rights and interests of the citizens are not affected adversely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, therefore, on consideration of the overall security scenario and the reports of the law enforcing agencies, I am satisfied that there is no other alternative but to continue with the speed restrictions in respect of access to the internet through mobiles while providing unrestricted fixed-line connectivity i.e. without any speed restrictions, and, accordingly, in the interest of the sovereignty and the integrity of India, the Security of the State and for maintaining public order, &#8230;.I, Principal Secretary to the Government, Home Department, hereby direct that there shall (restrictions on access to the internet with mobile data services restricted to 2G only,\u201d reads the order, adding that these restrictions shall continue till May 11. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: The Government on Monday ordered the continuation of the ban on high-speed internet in Jammu and Kashmir till May 11. In a latest order issued by the Home Department, the reason cited for the decision includes spurt in militant violence, the launch of new outfits and \u201cwell-founded\u201d apprehensions of the \u201cfield agencies\u201d regarding \u201cenhanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}