Grocery shops, fuel stations, medical shops witness unprecedented rush

Markets in Kashmir on Friday witnessed an unprecedented rush with people busy buying ration and groceries in view of the current uncertainty in the situation taking toll.

Scores of main markets in Srinagar witnessed shoppers making a beeline outside the medical and grocery stores, buying whatever they could to pile up the stock.

Kashmir valley has been reeling under uncertainty over the past week due to the additional deployment of troops being made by the central government. As per the reports, all sensitive places like state run  TV and radio stations besides hydro power projects have been handed over to the security forces.

The ongoing Amarnath Yatra also was suspended with latest advisory asking both pilgrims as well as the tourists who at present are in Kashmir to leave the state as soon as possible.Since the eruption of militancy, this has happened for the first time in the otherwise violence infested valley that an official advisory asking tourists and pilgrims to rush home has been issued.

Meanwhile, several super markets of the summer capital Srinagar faced acute shortage of entities due to the heavy  rush of the people busy buying the essentials. Fuel refilling stations too were jam-packed with both heavy as well as the light motor vehicles getting their ranks refilled to combat any fuel paucity in future.

Former Chief Minister and NC Vice President top sounded paranoid on micro blogging site.- Twitter. “What “ongoing situation” in Kashmir would require the army AND the Air Force to be put on alert? This isn’t about 35A or delimitation. This sort of alert, if actually issued, would be about something very different,” tweeted Omar.