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Block roads, restrict movement of ambulances, CAPD Vehicles
In Anantnag, NC-PDP activists turn shutdown enforcers
7/20/2016 11:32:38 PM
Early Times Report
ANANTNAG, July 20: Overnight, activists of ruling People's Democratic Party and opposition National Conference have turned shutdown enforcers. These shutdown enforcers mostly teenage boys are restricting the free movement of ambulances in this southern district by putting huge barricades on roads.
Shutdown enforcers have blocked the roads with stones, timber logs, electric poles, pipes, tree stems. In Anantnag, shutdown enforcers have completely blocked the Bijbehara-Pahalgam road with barbed wires and iron rods near Apple Valley resort Chiniwader Kanelwan. "No one is being allowed to pass the road be it an ambulance carrying patient or anyone else," an official said.
On visiting the particularly spot on Wednesday morning Early Times found the claims of the officials true.
At Matipora Anantnag, a group of shutdown enforcers did not even allow a couple to take their ailing ten months old daughter to hospital. According to eye-witness said that couple was asked to park the vehicle and visit the hospital on foot.
The couple told Early Times that it took them four hours to cover the distance from Matipora to Maternity Child Care hospital Anantnag. On return, the couple changed five routes due to blockade.
Similarly, at Nambal Mattan shutdown enforcers have also blocked the road and movement of vehicles is not allowed. Ding dong clashes on Pahalgam-Khanbal road is also restricting the traffic movement mostly at Sligam, Shutdown enforcers target vehicles with stones.
Shutdown enforcers have occupied all most all the link roads in rural areas of the district and people moving in vehicles despite travelling during night hours are being paraded.
According to sources most of the shutdown enforcers are affiliated with People's Democratic Party and National Conference. In a Bijbehara village, one of the shutdown enforcer yesterday shouted on loudspeaker, "Veeri Seaben fouj hey away"
Later the guy, according to villagers announced that he has disconnected all his connections with the mainstream politics and parties.
However, the acts of these shutdown enforcers have made the lives of Kashmiris hell. The CAPD department, which on the direction of deputy Commissioner Anantnag Syed Aabid Rashid Shah has started to dumping rice at ration stores in the district but officials are facing difficult time due to the barricades put on roads by the shutdown enforcers.
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