Srinagar, Nov. 7 -- By threatening traders and the general public, Pakistan backed terrorist outfits were trying to stretch the lockdown so as to create an impression that the situation in the valley was serious.

With terrorists and their sympathisers indulging in violence in a bid to create hurdles in life returning to normal in the Kashmir valley, the J&K police have cracked down on such elements who were threatening and intimidating people against resuming normal activities.

Normal life in the valley is paralysed for the past more than three months after the Modi government split the state into two union territories by scrapping Article 370 providing a special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

By threatening traders and the general public,...