Thursday 18th Jun, 2026
Srinagar, Oct 27 : Kashmir Valley on Saturday observed a shutdown on the call by Joint Resistance Leadership against the landing of troops in Jammu and Kashmir on October 27 in 1947.
Shops and other commercial establishments, schools and colleges remained closed across Kashmir Valley including commercial hub of Lal Chowk in Srinagar while attendance of employees in government offices was reported to be thin.
Public transport remained off the roads, however, skeletal private vehicles were seen plying some parts of Valley.
Strengthened deployments of paramilitary forces and police were made in several sensitive areas and according to a police officer, the day passed off peacefully. Railway authorities had also suspended train services across Kashmir as a precautionary measure in view of shutdown call by the JRL comprising both factions of Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq besides JKLF headed by Mohammad Yasin Malik.
The JRL had urged people to observe October 27 as ‘black day’. “It was on this day in 1947 that Indian forces landed in Kashmir to take illegal and forcible control of us and our land. And since then lakhs of forces have been controlling forcibly and illegally our land,” the JRL had said, adding: “JRL appeals to Kashmir diaspora on both sides of ceasefire line to observe the day in solidarity with their Kashmiri brethren and in whatever country they are, educate people through posters, banners, placards about the Kashmir dispute and grave human rights abuses here.” (GNS)
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