Life returns to normal in Sopore after 3 days, restrictions, strike

Life returned to normal after remaining paralysed due to strike and restrictions since September 27 in apple township of Sopore in this north Kashmir district.

Shops and business establishments reopened this morning and traffic was also plying normally on all routes as security forces had removed all road blocks and barbed wire.

Longest surviving militant Abdul Qayoum Najar was killed in an encounter with security forces near Line of Control in Boniyar Uri sector on September 27 when he returned from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Authorities imposed restrictions under Section 144 CrPC in the main town to prevent any demonstration while elsewhere in the Sopore people observed strike against the killing of Najar.