More difficulties for besieged IOK people as Chilai Kalan begins.

ISLAMABAD -- The situation in Kashmir valley remains grim on 139th consecutive day of curfew where the besieged people have more difficulties in store as the Chilai Kalan, the 40-day harshest winter period commenced on Saturday in Indian Occupied Kashmir.

As per centuries-old practice, the residents usually used to stock essential commodities for the winter season as the Valley remains cut off from the rest of the world due to closure of Srinagar-Jammu Highway, the only surface link of the territory with the outside world. However, this year, they could not do this due to unrelenting and persistent lock-down, reported by Kashmir Media Service.

Millions of people of the Valley continue to suffer immensely as they are already facing shortage of basic necessities including food and life-saving medicines awing to continued imposition of restrictions by Indian government since 5th August, this year. Amid deployment of hundreds of...