*SRINAGAR (KMS) – In Occupied Kashmir, all communications and the internetremain cut off and curfew continues for the ninth consecutive day onTuesday.*

Indian troops clamped tight restrictions across Kashmir, fearing anti-Indiaprotests. Internet and phone communications have been cut and tens ofthousands of troop reinforcements have flooded Srinagar and other parts ofthe Kashmir Valley and Doda and Kisthwar areas of Jammu region.

The personnel of Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force andpolice are deployed in large numbers at all places.

Meanwhile, roads and mosques in Srinagar wore a deserted look on Eid day,yesterday as no big or small gatherings were allowed anywhere in Srinagarand other parts of the valley.

International news organization, Reuters, in its report on Eid day saidshops were shut, their shutters and walls carrying anti-India graffitiincluding, “Go India Go Back” and “We Want Freedom”.

Several paramilitary and police officials referred to the restrictions as a‘curfew’ in conversations with Reuters reporters. India’s official stanceis that there are restrictions, but no curfew. The restrictions in Srinagarwere the city’s tightest ever, two paramilitary officials informed the newsagency.

Police and troops, many wearing heavy riot gear, dotted silent streetswhere checkpoints had been added around midnight, with more concertina wirelaid out to create barricades.