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Kashmir still goes without newspapers
SRINAGAR: Kashmir had to go without newspapers on Tuesday despite the end of a three-day ban imposed by authorities to quell the unrest that has claimed another
SRINAGAR: Kashmir had to go without newspapers on Tuesday despite the end of a three-day ban imposed by authorities to quell the unrest that has claimed another life.
Sources said the government’s decision to lift the ban came too late on Monday for printing the next day’s edition, adding the newspaper editors’ association would take a final call on publication on Tuesday.
The state government was criticised for censoring media following a week of violent unrest after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, who was killed in a gunfight with security forces on July 8. Cable and internet services were also hit.
A teenage girl injured in firing in Churat Qazigund in South Kashmir a day earlier died on Tuesday morning. Two people were killed on Monday evening in retaliatory firing after protesters threw stones at an army patrol. The killings take the death toll in ongoing protests to 44 even as curfew continues.
Amitabh Mattoo, political adviser to chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, said the ban was imposed without her knowledge. The statement contradicted a government spokesman who had on Saturday confirmed the ban. Senior minister Nayeem Akhtar had told HT the “undesirable step was taken to ensure peace”. Srinagar-based newspapers have not been printed since Saturday when copies were seized during midnight and early morning raids by police.
