Although BSNL landline connections were restored in some parts of the Valley after 20 days, mobile phone connectivity and internet services continued to remain suspended for the past 31 days.
Noting that a section of the media especially in the US has peddled half-truths and incorrect information about the situation in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, India's Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that 91% of the Valley has been opened to normal traffic and people are freely talking to their relatives.
Amit Shah meets former JK Governor Jagmohan over abrogation of article 370
Manzoor says police told him, Sameer was a stone pelter. When they didn't find him at his Khrew township home in Pulwama, 30 km from here, they arrested the 50-year-old father, in his stead.
Twenty-two sarpanchs from Kashmir, who bravely contested the panchayat elections in spite of threat to their lives from terrorists, met Shah and other top officials of the Home Ministry.
"Jammu and Ladakh already continue to be free from all such restrictions and in totality, we have 93 per cent of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh free of any prohibitory orders today," the principal secretary said.
"While our people are dying, you are acting as a mere spectator," said Haq addressing a rally held here on Sunday to express solidarity with Kashmiris reeling under an unprecedented day-and-night curfew and communication blackout for several weeks.
Several posters showing Pakistan Armed Forces spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor have come up in the old city here asking people to fight against the revocation of Article 370, and appeals to them to combat the measure till the last bullet.
Shah also said Maharashtra will be the first state in the country where elections will be held after nullification of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Former army chiefs suggest possible ways to get PoK
Gowhar Geelani was stopped from travelling to Germany at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Saturday, they said.
Nationalism runs in the veins of the people of Haryana as youngsters from every village of the state serve in defence forces and this spirit will help the BJP defeat the caste-based politics propagated by the Congress and other opposition parties, he said.
Altaf Hussain, founder of Pakistan's Muttahida Qami Movement (MQM), is in complete support of India's decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Hussain said it was India's internal matter. He even went on to sing "Saare jahan se achha Hindustan humara."
Restrictions have been lifted from most areas of the valley on Saturday morning, the officials said.
A senior BJP leader, on the condition of anonymity, said the public awareness campaign will be carried out in every district of the state to celebrate the scrapping of Article 370.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday called Crown Prince of the UAE Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed to discuss the developments in Jammu and Kashmir. Khan's call to the Crown Prince comes after Zayed on Monday conferred the UAE's highest civilian award 'Order of Zayed' on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi.
All post-paid subscribers of state-run BSNL, Jio and Vodafone in the north Kashmir border district will benefit from the decision, they said.
"Generalisations and exaggerations. One stray incident (which I'm sure must have been taken cognizance of for corrective measures) can't be deemed as standard. Juveniles in conflict with the law being dealt as per juvenile law. Painting an alarming picture, which in reality doesn't exist," Hussain, an officer with Jammu and Kashmir police, tweeted.
The Bangladeshis, all residents of Thakurgaon district of the neighbouring country, claimed that they have been eking out a living at Kulgam in Jammu and Kashmir and they arrived Kishanganj on Wednesday evening, BSF DIG Amritlal Tirkey said.
Restrictions under Section 144 of the CrPc were announced on public address system. People have been asked not to venture outside and barricades have been placed.
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