Kashmir streets still quiet after almost two weeks of clampdown

Record ID: 1427506

  • Title: Kashmir streets still quiet after almost two weeks of clampdown
  • Date: 17th August 2019
  • Summary: SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (AUGUST 17, 2019) (REUTERS) VIEW OF CLOSED SHOPS AND QUIET STREETS FROM DASHBOARD OF MOVING VEHICLE SOLDIERS ON GUARD IN MARKET AREA SCARCE TRAFFIC, TWO WOMEN CARRYING UMBRELLAS BEHIND BARBED WIRE BARRICADE SCARCE TRAFFIC ON ROAD (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) KASHMIRI WOMAN, SAIMA, SAYING: "The biggest issue is that of access to doctors. Those who are lying sick in their homes, they very urgently need doctors. We are not getting medicines either, nor are we getting gas cylinders. Sick people are not getting proper medical facilities." SCARCE TRAFFIC, CLOSED SHOPS SOLDIERS ON GUARD MEN ON BOAT ON DAL LAKE BOAT IN DAL LAKE
  • Embargoed: 31st August 2019 07:02
  • Keywords: special status medical lockdown Kashmir lockdown Kashmir India security health Kashmiri Srinagar
  • Location: SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA
  • City: SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001ASLTYDJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The streets of Srinagar city in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir remained quiet on Saturday (August 17) amid an ongoing clampdown, with shops still shuttered and security tight.
    Telephone and internet links were cut and public assembly banned in Kashmir just before New Delhi removed the decades-old autonomy the Muslim majority territory enjoyed under the Indian constitution. The measures were aimed at preventing protests.
    Authorities on Friday (August 16) said they would begin restoring telephone lines, though did not specify exactly when the restoration would be complete.
    One Kashmir resident, Saima, on Saturday said her biggest concern was access to medical facilities.
    The lockdown of the Kashmir valley, home to nearly 7 million people, has drawn widespread criticism but the government does seem to have succeeded in isolating any protests.
    (Production: Bhushan Kumar, Sunil Kataria, Natasha Howitt)
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