Kashmir Valley quiet

Srinagar, June 30 (PTI) - Kashmir valley, which witnessed
widespread protest over the Amarnath land transfer row in the
past six days that left three dead and over 250 injured, was
tense but peaceful Sunday.

Barring a few incidents of stone-pelting in downtown
Srinagar, no violence was reported from any part of the
valley, official sources said.

Though no political outfit has called for a strike Sunday,
shops and businesses were shut and public transport remained
off the road in all the districts.

Police and para-military troopers kept a hawk-eye vigil in
violence-hit areas where tension ran high as authorities
advised people through loudspeakers to stay indoors.

Only mediapersons and sick people were allowed to move
out of their houses as a curfew-like situation prevailed in
the valley.

However, IGP (Kashmir) S. M. Sahai said "we are doing
normal policing. Curfew has not been clamped anywhere."

In winter capital Jammu, several political and religious
organisations staged protests denouncing the P.D.P. for
objecting transfer of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board.

They torched effigies of P.D.P. patron Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed and party leader Muzaffar Hussain Beig at several
places.

Raising anti-government, anti-P.D.P. and anti-Mufti
slogans, over 1,000 Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists blocked
vehicular traffic on the Jammu-Pathankot highway for over an
hour.

Bajrang Dal activists also raised anti-P.D.P. slogans and
demanded arrest of Beig alleging he was making anti-Amarnath
yatra statements.

They warned of serious repercussions if the land transfer
decision was revoked.

Activists of Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena and
members of Jammu and Kashmir Vichar Munch and Panun Kashmir
also staged protests blocking road traffic.

They raised slogans decrying the P.D.P. and burnt
effigies of its leaders. PTI