R-day functions pass off peacefully in Srinagar.
Nasir Khan Central Kashmir Bureau Chief
In Srinagar city, the main function was held at the Sher-e-Kashmir cricket stadium where Revenue and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Abdul Rehman Veeri hoisted the Tricolour and took the salute at the parade.
Mobile phone services were suspended in the Valley as a “precautionary measure”, with the authorities saying they would be restored in the afternoon. Reports of peaceful R-Day celebrations have also come from different district headquarters of the Valley, Jammu and Ladakh regions.
Extraordinary security arrangements had been made this year for the Republic Day celebrations amid intelligence inputs that a non-local female suicide bomber had entered Srinagar.
Separatists had called for a shutdown across the Valley to attract international attention to the Kashmir dispute.
