{"id":6072,"date":"2010-05-11T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2010-05-11T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T12:58:54","slug":"general-strike-cripples-life-indian-kashmir-3643645","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/general-strike-cripples-life-indian-kashmir-3643645\/","title":{"rendered":"General strike cripples life Indian Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">Srinagar, May 10: A general strike called by the lawyers against what it termed failure of judiciary in Indian Kashmir in crippled life in the troubled region on Monday.<\/h1>\n<h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6073\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6073\" title=\"Kashmir Strike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Kashmir-Strike.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters being taken away by police after some violence erupted during the strike\" width=\"350\" height=\"280\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters being taken away by police after some violence erupted during the strike.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All shops, business establishments, government offices, banks and financial institutions remained closed while\u00a0vehicle\u00a0traffic were off the roads. Only police, paramilitary, military and some private vehicles were plying on the deserted roads.<\/h2>\n<p>The authorities had increased presence of police and paramilitary soldiers in the sensitive areas in Srinagar and other vulnerable places in Kashmir. The police and paramilitary soldiers had erected barricades at several places and were not allowing more than four persons to assemble at a single person.<\/p>\n<p>However, defying restrictions youth took to roads at Bohri Kadal, Batamaloo, Parimpora, Baramulla and Sopore areas in Kashmir and staged pro-freedom demonstration. Chanting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans, the protestors were demanding release of the Kashmiri detainees and end to HR abuses. The protestors clashed with the cops, who fired tear smoke shells and rubber bullets and resorted to baton charge. The protestors retaliated by hurling bricks and stones towards the cops. At least 12 persons sustained injuries during the clashes, which continued  for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the injured are said to have received rubber bullet injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, most of the separatist leaders were placed under house arrest to prevent them from leading anti-India demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers have thanked people for observing complete shutdown. \u201cThe strike was observed to protest against collapse of the judicial in Indian Kashmir,\u201d president of Kashmir Bar Association, Mian Abdul Qayoom said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the separatist leaders and Kashmiri youth are being detained despite courts ordering their release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Leave your comments and thoughts bellow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>National Turk \/India\u00a0 \u2013 Faiz Ahmad<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! --> <!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Strike in India:A general strike called by the lawyers against what it termed failure of judiciary in Indian Kashmir in crippled life in the troubled region on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118,14],"tags":[8017,8014,2546,8013,8016,8011,4067,8015,8012,7212],"class_list":["post-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-general-strike-india","tag-general-strike-kashmir","tag-india","tag-india-kashmir-strike","tag-india-violence","tag-indian-kashmir","tag-kashmir","tag-kashmir-bar-association","tag-kashmir-strike","tag-kashmir-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}