Life returns to normal, Shabir Shah and others released

Srinagar, July 14 (UNI) Life returned to normal in the Kashmir valley after a day-long general strike yesterday which was called by separatist organisations to remember the martyrs of 1931.

Shops and business establishments reopened this morning and traffic on all routes was normal.

Work in government offices, which were closed yesterday due to holiday, was normal today.

Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) chief Shabir Ahmad Shah, who was arrested alongwith 20 of his supporters at Munwarabad yesterday, was released late last night.

Mr Shah was taken into preventive custody when he was on way to Mazar-e-Shouda to pay floral tributes to 1931 martyrs who were killed by police outside the Srinagar central jail.

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