Srinagar, Sept 16: The Kashmir valley observed a complete bandh today in response to the dawn-to-dusk shut down called by the Hurriyat Conference against the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, during which some JKLF activists staged a demonstration here.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front activists led by their acting chairman Javed Ahmad Mir staged a demonstration outside their party headquarters at Maisuma here raising slogans like "no election, no selection we want freedom,” official sources said. The protestors were dispersed by police and paramilitary forces who did not put up any resistance, they said.
However, Javed, JKLF representative in the Hurriyat, said that he was roughed up by the BSF and was injured.
Shops and business establishments in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir valley remained closed and all modes of transport went off the roads.
The streets wore a deserted look as people remained indoors fearing trouble as almost all militant outfits had called for a boycott of elections.

Bureau Report