{"id":9211,"date":"2017-04-03T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:45:17","slug":"kashmir-valley-shuts-down-to-protest-pms-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9211","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir Valley shuts down to protest PM\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>Kashmir today observed a shutdown against the \u00a0visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who inaugurated the Chenani-Nashri tunnel \u00a0on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.The shutdown call was given by separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik \u00a0to protest PM Modi\u2019s visit to the state.\u00a0Owing to the shutdown, the normal life in Kashmir was disrupted, with shops and business establishments remaining closed in Srinagar and other major towns of the Valley. Public transport on most of the Srinagar roads and inter-district highways was disrupted.Apprehending trouble, the authorities had increased security even as Srinagar city witnessed a \u00a0militant attack on an Army convoy on Saturday in which three jawans were injured.The police and Army had set up \u2018nakas\u2019 and check-points on the major highways across Kashmir as they had inputs about the \u00a0militant movement.\u00a0While calling for the shutdown, the separatists, in their statement, said the \u201cIndian Prime Minister is visiting (J&amp;K) \u00a0at a time, when situation is extremely gloomy.\u201d\u201cThe Kashmir issue is not about governance, economic packages or incentives, neither it is a law and order problem,\u201d they said, adding that the Kashmir dispute \u00a0was a political issue related to human society and needed a just solution.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Kashmir today observed a shutdown against the \u00a0visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who inaugurated the Chenani-Nashri tunnel \u00a0on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.The shutdown call was given by separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik \u00a0to protest PM Modi\u2019s visit to the state.\u00a0Owing to the shutdown, the normal life in Kashmir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9211","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\/9211","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=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/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=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}