SRINAGAR: A one-day strike to protest the arrival of Indian troops in Indian-administered Kashmir in 1947 shut most shops and businesses in the disputed region's main city on Tuesday.
Many banks, post offices and government offices in Srinagar, the urban hub of militants and separatist politicians fighting to end India's rule in Kashmir, were also closed.
The strike is to protest India's occupation of Kashmir, separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani said in a statement.
Indian troops arrived in Kashmir on October 27, 1947.
Maharaja Hari Singh initially held out for independence for Kashmir when Britain withdrew from the Indian subcontinent in August 1947.
After Indian troops restored peace in Kashmir, then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said he would agree to United Nations resolutions calling for a plebiscite on the region's status.
India now considers the resolutions obsolete and wants a bilateral agreement with Pakistan, which controls the northern part of Kashmir. Both countries claim the region in its entirety.
The dispute has caused two wars between India and Pakistan. An insurgency against New Delhi's rule that started in 1989 has claimed at least 47,000 lives.
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Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.
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