KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Eid ul Azha 2016 is going to be historic because of the security situation. Authorities are making elaborate arrangements to ensure it remains incident free and the key decision is to impose curfew like restrictions in most of Kashmir.
Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan, according to an official spokesman, has announced imposition of “restrictions at some sensitive places” in Srinagar to maintain law and order. This, the spokesman said, was done in view of the strike and protest call given by the separatists on Eid-ul-Azha.
Informed sources told Kashmir Life that security arrangements were the main point of discussion in the high level security meeting Monday evening. Apart from restrictions that are expected to be imposed across Kashmir, insiders said an elaborate system of surveillance has been put in place.
A senior officer in Srinagar said that “in order to save the life and property” they feel “constrained” to impose restrictions in “most sensitive areas” of the city. “We are forced by the situation to impose restrictions and it is in reaction,” the officer said.
Reports from south Kashmir Islamabad said that government forces have already taken over the major Eidgah in the area around which barricades have been raised. In certain sensitive areas, army has apparently been deployed.
This is the first Eid since the militancy erupted in Kashmir when the government has imposed restrictions. The restrictions are aimed at preventing people from assembling and going to the UNMOGIP office in Sonawar, as separatists have called for.
