{"id":2604,"date":"2014-05-15T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2014-05-15T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:49:38","slug":"kashmir-observes-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir observes shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Situation remained normal, 6 \u2018stone pelters\u2019 surrendered at Hajin: Police<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>The normal life remained crippled as the valley\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0observed shutdown against \u2018detention and arrests\u2019 of youth and pro-freedom leaders on a strike call extended by Hurriyat Conference (G).<\/p>\n<p>The shops and other business establishments remained closed and the public transport remained off the roads. However, the private vehicles were seen plying across the valley. While extending strike call, Syed Ali Geelani, chairman Hurriyat (G) \u00a0had, warned government that \u2018if raids, arrests and atrocities doesn\u2019t stop till 13 May, his faction of Hurriyat Conference will issue a \u2018protest programme\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Reports reaching KNS said that shops and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar\u2019s Lal Chowk and adjoining areas. The strike affected the normal business \u00a0in other parts of the valley especially in North and South Kashmir. \u00a0The schools and colleges were also shut. In civil lines and uptown areas of Srinagar, the shutdown call evoked mixed response. The government offices and banks recorded thin attendance but functioned normally. Authorities had kept additional police and paramilitary forces ready to tackle any eventuality.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the police said the situation by and large remained normal. \u201cSix stone pelters evading arrests have surrendered at police station Hajin. Six stone pelters who are involved in recent cases of violence and stone pelting and were evading arrest surrendered today at police station Hajin. The stone pelters who surrendered today include Manzoor Ahmad Dar son of Sonaullah Dar, Ghulam Jeelani Dar son of Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Dar, Mumtaz Ahmad Dar son of Farooq Ahmad Dar, Abdul Hamid Rather son of Sonaullah Rather, Showkat Ahmad Khan son of Mohammad Yousuf Khan and Azhar-ud-din Dar son of Mohammad Akbar residents of Shah Gund, Hajin. Police has started a large scale manhunt for the stone pelters and other perpetrators of violence in the area,\u201d reads a police statement issued to KNS.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>(KNS)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situation remained normal, 6 \u2018stone pelters\u2019 surrendered at Hajin: Police Srinagar:\u00a0The normal life remained crippled as the valley\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0observed shutdown against \u2018detention and arrests\u2019 of youth and pro-freedom leaders on a strike call extended by Hurriyat Conference (G). The shops and other business establishments remained closed and the public transport remained off the roads. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}