SRINAGAR, (PTK):The two-day long shutdown called Joint Resistance Leadership against the arrest spree , NIA raids and threats to Article 35A kept normal life paralyzed for the second consecutive day in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday. While most of the shopkeepers remained inside homes due to the strike call , the local police and Central paramilitary forces remained deployed in the sensitive places of the valley.
Hundreds of J&K policemen and CRPF men and members of other central forces, fanned out overnight, patrolled the streets of Srinagar. The security was very tight in volatile old quarter of the summer capital to hold back protests by separatists.
A general strike against the said reasons was also observed in the Banihal township.
On Tuesday , NIA teams raided houses of many leaders including houses two key-separatist leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik which JRL called for two-day long protest strike .
Earlier last week , hundreds of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders were arrested during night raids by government forces .
Since then, tension across Kashmir kept on mounting across the valley. (PTK)
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