The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered the suspension of Internet services for social networking sites in the Valley for one month.
The Jammu and Kashmir Home Department on Wednesday banned 22 social networking sites in the restive Kashmir Valley for one month. The order to ban social media platforms in J&K was issued by Principal Secretary (Home) R K Goyal. Earlier, there were reports that the government has banned the internet, but such reports were found to be rumors.
"Whereas anti-national and inimical elements largely succeed in transmitting unverified objectionable inflammatory material/content through the medium of these social networking sites and internet messaging services without any accountability, thereby endangering public life and property and causing unrest/disharmony in the state", it added.
As the soon as the teaching work in colleges across Kashmir Valley resumed on Monday after remaining on hold for five days, students of the SP College, SP Higher Secondary School and the Government College for Women clashed with the forces in the city's Maulana Azad Road area.
A video released on social media sites earlier this month showed a man tied to a jeep being used as a human shield against stone-throwers by soldiers in occupied Kashmir.
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However banning social media will do little to address the rising tide of anti-India sentiment, said Shujaat Bukhari, editor of the Rising Kashmir newspaper in Srinagar.
Kashmiri students and other protesters throw stones at an Indian police vehicle as they clash with police in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 24, 2017.
The escalation of violence began past year when security forces killed Burhan Wani, a self-styled Kashmir commander of the terror organisation Hizbul Mujahideen. A crackdown by security forces ends up providing fodder for the next round of protests.
In another protest, hundreds of villagers a few kilometers (miles) from the battle took to the streets and hurled rocks at police and paramilitary soldiers, who fired tear gas and warning shots to break up the demonstration. The two countries have gone through three wars over the region, but the conflict has not been resolved.
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