SRINAGAR: The police and Central armed forces enforced curfew-like restrictions in several parts of Srinagar on Monday to hold back a protest march on the main Army base in restive Kashmir's summer capital.
The call for the march was issued by an alliance of key separatist leaders to protest the killing of seven civilians in the firing by troops in southern Pulwama district at the weekend.
The police detained Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, two leaders of the alliance called 'Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL)', along with several other activists as they began marching towards Srinagar's Badami Bagh cantonment where the headquarters of Army's 15 Corps are also located.
Malik and other members of his Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) were wearing shrouds with 'Kill us all' and similar slogans written on these as they emerged of the dark alleys of Srinagar's Maisuma area but only to be confronted by the police.
