Photo: AFPSrinagar: Jammu and Kashmir imposed a curfew on Friday and blocked mobile phone services to stop people from gathering in the streets and stage violent protests over the killing of a young militant commander by security forces. But separatist leaders say Kashmiris remain alienated and have repeatedly called for three-way talks, including Pakistan, to address grievances. Security forces were deployed in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, to enforce the curfew as well as in Anantnag district in the south where Burhan Wani, idolised by some Kashmiri youth, was killed in a security operation. An orchard was also attacked on suspicion that some people in the area had given Indian forces information about Wani’s whereabouts. At least 34 people have been killed and 3,100 wounded, most of them in police firing, in the worst outbreak of violence in six years in the disputed territory.

Source: Mint July 15, 2016 09:20 UTC