Harshest cold weather added to miseries of IOK people, "lockdown enters 146th day".

ISLAMABAD -- There is no let up in the miseries of the residents of the Kashmir Valley as they continue to remain besieged on 146th consecutive day, while the harshest cold weather has added to the miseries of the besieged people as they couldn't stock essential commodities for the winter season.

As per a centuries-old practice, usually the inhabitants of the Valley used to store food stuff and firewood in abundance for the winter as the Srinagar-Jammu

Highway - the only surface link of the region with the rest of the world - remains mostly closed due to snowfall and rains in the months of December and January.

However, this time around, they could not do so due to military lockdown which is in force since 5th August, Kashmir Media Srvice reported.

A restriction under Section 144 remain enforced amid deployment of thousands of Indian troops, the people of the Valley cut off from their immediate surroundings and the...