Srinagar: Life has returned to normalcy in Kashmir as the restrictions and the shutdown, imposed in the wake of the killing of Zakir Musa, the alleged head of an Al-Qaeda affiliate in the valley, stands withdrawn.
He was killed in an encounter by the security forces. The officials said that there were no restrictions in place in any part of the valley on Sunday. Normalcy has returned to the valley as there is no strike today and no restrictions have been imposed anywhere, an official said.
Officials said shops, fuel stations and other business establishments re-opened this morning while public transport also operated normally.
The weekly flea market on the TRC Chowk-Batamaloo axis through the Lal Chowk city centre was also open.
Musa, the so-called head of the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, was killed in an encounter with security forces at Dadsara village of Tral in the south Kashmir's Pulwama district after forces launched a search operation on late Thursday evening following specific information about the presence of militants.
Fearing law and order problems, authorities had imposed curfew in parts of Kashmir Valley as a precautionary measure on Friday. The curfew continued on Saturday in view of a strike called by the hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani against the killing of Musa and a civilian, Zahoor Ahmad, a resident of Naira Pulwama by unidentified gunmen on Thursday.
Mobile internet was also suspended on Thursday night across the valley, but the low-speed service was restored in most parts on Saturday evening following improvement in the situation. The high-speed mobile internet service continued to remain barred.
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