My 14 days of siege in Kashmir; a first-hand account from the valley
Kashmir Updates -Sadiq Shaban - 26 August, 2019
It was in the middle of such a tourist season — when it is usually hard to find a hotel room in Kashmir — that the government issued a spate of advisories asking visitors to immediately leave the valley. Suddenly a major Hindu pilgrimage, undertaken by thousands of devotees each year, was also terminated.
You could sense some of that anxiousness around but people nonetheless carried on with their daily chores. Many bought the government assurance that the advisories were a result of ‘intelligence inputs’ that warned of a major terror attack.
Yet others felt that New Delhi was planning something big in Kashmir and an announcement to this effect was in the offing.
Not surprisingly, this atmosphere of confusion and suspense fed to rumour mongering. As the day progressed, long queues could be seen outside petrol stations and ATMs.
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