Srinagar, Aug. 13 -- Security has been beefed up across Kashmir ahead of Independence Day celebrations as the forces intensified area domination, checking and frisking to ensure peaceful and smooth conduct of the event, officials said on Wednesday.

Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in strength at several places in the city and elsewhere in the Valley to thwart any attempts by terrorists to disrupt the celebrations, the officials said.

Policemen in plain clothes have been deployed around the venues of Independence Day functions to keep an eye on suspicious persons, they said.

Random searches of vehicles and frisking of people is also being carried out at several places in the Valley, they said.

The security forces have ...