Kashmir Shutdown For Indian VP Hamid Ansari visit
SRINAGAR: A strike to protest against a visit by the Indian vice president to the disputed region of Kashmir on Saturday shut down shops, offices and schools.
Vice President Hamid Ansari was set to arrive in Srinagar later in the day to attend a university event in the city.
Security was tight after the death of a vegetable seller overnight in a grenade explosion in Srinagar.
Police and paramilitary forces patrolled the deserted streets of Srinagar and sealed off neighbourhoods to prevent rallies against India’s rule of the Muslim-majority region.
Ansari’s visit comes as protests have been raging across the Kashmir valley since the bodies of two women who had been raped were found three weeks ago.
Families of the two victims have blamed security forces for the crime.
Kashmir Shutdown For Indian VP Hamid Ansari visit was first posted on June 20, 2009 at 2:39 pm.
Violence In Occupide Kashmir 3 Killed
SRINAGAR: Two militants and a police officer were killed in separate violence related attacks in restive Kashmir.
Meanwhile, security forces claimed to have gunned down two freedom fighters at village Kumkadi in Kupwara district of North Kashmir in an encounter, this morning.
Official sources told media that fighters fired upon a patrolling party of 47 RR and 23 Punjab at Kumkadi falling under the jurisdiction of police station Kupwara.
In the ensuing firefight two freedom fighter got killed, however the identification of the militants was being ascertained.
One AK47, under barrel grenade launcher (UBGL) attached, three UBGL grenades, one AK47 rifle (damaged), six AK magazines, two pouches, 62 rounds of AK ammunition and one Nokia Mobile with Indian SIM were recovered from the slain militants. 
A police officer told media that a group of freedom fighter fired from automatic weapons towards a vehicle carrying a police officer at Mazbugh, some 60 kilometers North of the summer capital Srinagar. “In the attack, the police officer identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Fafoo was killed while his relative Nisar Ahmad Dar was critically injured,” he said.
He said that Nisar was taken to the hospital, where doctors are attending on him. No group has owned the responsibility of the attack.
Violence In Occupide Kashmir 3 Killed was first posted on June 16, 2009 at 11:01 am.
