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Rail services resume in Kashmir 2/16/2016 11:04:40 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 16: Rail services in the Kashmir valley resumed this morning after remaining suspended for a day following strike called by separatist organizations in protest against the death of two students allegedly in security force firing in Pulwama district on February 14. This was the third time that rail services were suspended in the Valley during the past one week. A railway official told UNI that train movements were suspended on February 14 afternoon between Badgam-Srinagar in the central Kashmir to Banihal in Jammu region via Pulwama and Anantnag following protests and encounter in south Kashmir.Massive protests erupted in Pulwama after two students identified-- Shaista Hamid and Danish Rashid-- were killed when security forces opened fire at Kakpora, where people were protesting during an encounter in which a Lashker-e-Toia (LeT) militant Adil Ahmad shergojri alias Abu Bakar was killed on February 14. Railway officials said rail services between Srinagar-Badgam and Baramulla in north Kashmir, which was suspended yesterday, was also resumed. On February 9 and February 11, death anniversaries of Parliament convict Afzal Guru and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat respectively, rail services in the Kashmir valley were suspended.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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