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| As Srinagar limps towards normalcy, miscreants block peripheries | | People reject separatists, their ideology | | "This shutdown is not taking us anywhere. We are the verge of facing starvation. We have decided to open our shops come what may. We have been threatened even Mukhbir was written on the shutters of our shops but we are least bothered about the consequences as we know it very well that Azadi is nothing but a myth,"
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 27: Police launching a massive crackdown against the stone pelters and the henchmen, who were orchestrating street protests across Kashmir for the past three months, is giving sleepless nights to separatists as they have seen the writing on the wall that people have rejected them and their ideology.
Sources said as a last ditch attempt separatists have shifted their focus from major areas in the city to peripheries and are instigating young boys to block the lanes and by lanes in the city outskirts. "On Monday evening many miscreants appeared at Natipora, Channa, Bagh-e-Mehtab, Machu and Kralpora. They (miscreants) enforced the shutdown by breaking windowpanes of the vehicles which were plying on the roads and tried to ransack the shops," said a source.
He said, "On the other hand a group of miscreants appeared at Rawalpora and Wanbal and resorted to stone pelting leading to complete chaos and confusion."
Police sources said that most areas in the city have started "behaving" as the miscreants have been nailed but a few areas still continue to be volatile. "We are on the job and hope that within one week to 10-days normalcy would be restored. The common people are coming forward and are identifying the miscreants who have unleashed terror in the city. Common man too has realized that these strikes and shutdowns are not taking them anywhere," they added.
A source said, "The helpline set up by police receives numerous calls everyday. People provide Police with the inputs which help the forces to trace the miscreants and arrest them."
"The volatile areas which till the recent past were hotbeds have been secured. In coming days the action against the remaining miscreants would be intensified and they would be taken to task for taking law into their hands and disrupting the movement of the people," said a source.
Sources said that a few representatives of traders bodies had approached the Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani with a plea that strike should be called off as they are facing immense hardships. Geelani, according to the sources, expressed his helplessness saying, "Youth are out on the streets on their own and he cannot annoy them by calling off the strike."
Sources said that traders at many places have started defying the protest calendar issued by the separatists and are taking on stone-pelters and other miscreants head on. "This shutdown is not taking us anywhere. We are the verge of facing starvation. We have decided to open our shops come what may. We have been threatened even Mukhbir was written on the shutters of our shops but we are least bothered about the consequences as we know it very well that Azadi is nothing but a myth," sources quoted a shopkeeper at Sanat Nagar uptown in Srinagar as having said.
Sources said hundreds of people had a made a beeline at Rajbagh on Monday and Tuesday to get a Jio sim launched recently by the Reliance. "We cannot stay in our homes forever life has to go on. A few miscreants have no right to impose curbs on our life," a source quoted a youth as having said. |
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