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"Ahead of Republic Day parades in Srinagar and elsewhere Saturday, mobile phone services were suspended across the Kashmir Valley as part of a security drill.<br/><br/><p>Different service providers did not issue any alert to subscribers before suspending their services.<br/><br/>Contacted on landline phones, people in Srinagar, Ganderbal, Anantnag, Badgam, Baramulla, Sopore and other towns said mobile phones had stopped working since Saturday morning.<br/><br/>Last year too mobile phone services were withdrawn in the valley Jan 26 and Aug 15. In the past, separatist guerrillas triggered improved explosive devices using mobile telephones.</p>"
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