Normal Life affected in Srinagar due to strike, restrictions 

Srinagar: The Normal life in Srinagar remained affected on Wednesday due to strike call extended by the Hurriyat Conference (M) and the consequent restrictions imposed by the administration to prevent a law and order situation.

Reports reaching KNS, said that a complete shutdown was observed by people in areas like Khanyar, Rainawari, Nowhatta, M R Gunj, Kralkhud, Zadibal and Safakadal. Authorities had  imposed restrictions in these areas to thwart a march to the Martyrs’ graveyard in the old city Eidgah ground called by the Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.

Police and CRPF personnel were deployed in these areas in full riot gear to prevent any defiance of the restrictions orders.

The authorities had already placed Mirwaiz Umer Farooq under house confinement to preempt to any law and order situation that could have arisen due to march called by Mirwaiz. According to KNS correspondents, shops, public transport, educational institutions and other businesses establishment remained closed in Srinagar while government offices, banks, post offices and other public sector undertakings functioned normally. The public transport was off the road while as the private vehicles were seen plying normally in civil lines area. No untoward incident was reported from anywhere in the city so far. The strike called by Mirwaiz was in order to commemorate death of his father Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and another senior separatist leader Abdul Gani Lone who were killed by unidentified gunmen on the same day in 1990 and 2002 respectively. While elder Mirwaiz was shot dead at his residence in Nigeen on May 21, 1990, Abdul Ghani Lone was killed in the Eidgah grounds on May 21, 2002 when he was addressing a rally.