BHADERWAH,APR 03 (KNO) : Normal life was affected in Bhadarwah and Kishtwar towns of Chenab Valley on Tuesday due to a shutdown called to protest the killing of civilians in Shopian firing .
The call for strike was issued by the Anjuman-e-Islamia Bhadarwah and Imam Jamia Masjid Kishtwar to protest the killing of civilians in Shopian districts. Shops and other business establishments and some private schools of Muslim community remained closed.However government schools, offices and banks were functioning normally and traffic was moving on the roads as usual in Bhaderwah.
“We have given a call for peaceful bandh to lodge our protest against innocent civilian killings in Kashmir ," said President Anjuman-e-Islamia Bhadarwah, Pervaiz Ahmed Sheikh.Heavy contingents of police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed in main towns of Chenab valley .(KNO)