NEW DELHI – Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval paid asurprise visit to Occupied Jammu and Kashmir today.
According to CNN, Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has put the securityforces on maximum alert throughout the country in the wake of abolition ofspecial status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Amidst growing panic over Indian government’s unilateral decision toabrogate Article 370, the authorities imposed undeclared curfew both in theKashmir valley and Jammu placing bar on the movement of people, holding ofany kind of public meetings and rallies.
All educational institutions were closed while Internet services snappedacross occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Examinations to be held, today, werepostponed.
Additional paramilitary forces were deployed across the Kashmir Valley andJammu region. Indian troops were deployed in strength around vitalinstallations such as civil secretariat, police headquarters, airport andother government establishments.
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Barricades were erected on all entry and exit points in Srinagar and othercities. The entire resistance leadership including Syed Ali Gilani andMirwaiz Umar Farooq were placed under house arrest or detained in jails.
Meanwhile, more than 8,000 additional Indian paramilitary troops wereairlifted from different parts of India to occupied Kashmir, today. Thesetroops are in addition to the 38,000 troops brought into the territoryover the past one week.
