Srinagar, March 7 -- Normalcy returned across Kashmir on Saturday as markets reopened and public transport resumed normal operations after several days of restrictions.
Internet and prepaid mobile phone services, which had been suspended in the wake of protests, were also restored on Friday evening.
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir had imposed curbs in parts of the Valley five days earlier to prevent protests following the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an Israeli-US attack on February 28.
The restrictions were lifted on Friday evening from Srinagar's Lal Chowk, which had been barricaded with tin sheets and coils of barbed wire to prevent another gathering of Shia mourners near the Ghanta Ghar, Srinagar.
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