Hizbul Mujhahideen was behind attacks on mobile service providers: Police

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a sports tournament in Srinagar, Director General of Police K.Rajendra said that they have taken a strong note of the attacks carried out by militants in some parts of North Kashmir.

“The breakdown in Communication System has caused immense problems to the people”, the Director General of Police  said.

“Business has got affected. We have taken serious note of the threatening posters that have surfaced in certain parts of South Kashmir as well and I assure people that there will be no more communication breakdown and the system will be restored within days in affected areas,” Rajendra said.

More than 50 towers in the Sopore area of northern Kashmir have been taken out of service, nearly shutting down public communications in the vicinity, police said.

Suspected militants on Monday had shot dead an employee of a BSNL franchisee and injured two others in Sopore town.

The father of a sarpanch, who had a mobile transmission tower installed inside his residential compound, was on Tuesday shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Sopore town.

Dozens of communications towers have been shut down in an area of north Kashmir after a string of attacks and threats by militants, who say cell phone services are being used to target their members.

(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)