Kashmir valley cut off for 2nd day after heavy snowfall
Kashmir valley was cut off from rest of the country for the second consecutive day on Wedensday as the air traffic to and fro Srinagar Airport remained suspended while the Srinagar Jammu national highway was closed due to Tuesday's heavy snowfall. "The national highway is closed as the road has been rendered unsafe for vehicular traffic at several places around Jawahar Tunnel due to Tuesday's snowfall," a spokesman of the traffic department told . The 294 km road, the only all weather road link between Kashmir and rest of the country, was closed on Tuesday following heavy snowfall across the valley. Until the mid 19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range. Today Kashmir denotes a larger area that includes the Indian administered state of Jammu and Kashmir (the Kashmir valley, Jammu and Ladakh), the Pakistani administered Gilgit Baltistan and the Azad Kashmir provinces, and the Chinese administered regions of Aksai Chin and Trans Karakoram Tract.
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