Mobile phone services shut for a day in Kashmir

Cell phones across Kashmir Valley fell silent Wednesday morning as official functions to celebrate the country's 66th Independence Day started in Srinagar.

Cell phones across Kashmir Valley fell silent Wednesday morning as official functions to celebrate the country's 66th Independence Day started in Srinagar.

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Mobile phones from various service providers, including BSNL, Airtel, Aircel, Reliance and Tata, fell silent around 9am across the Valley.

No official comment was available on whether the service providers had been directed to shut their services temporarily as part of the overall security drill connected with Aug 15.

Mobile phones across the Valley went without connectivity on this for a dayday last year as well.

In the past, separatists have used mobile phones to trigger remote controlled explosive devices in Jammu and Kashmir.