Srinagar: Train services were suspended on Monday for security reasons in the Kashmir valley,on the first of the four phased S Urban Local Bodies (UBL) and Panchayat polling today. Separatists have called for a general strike.

A senior railway official told, “we have suspended all train runs in the Kashmir valley after an advisory was received from police last night:.

He said no train will chug on Badgam-Srinagar-Anantnag-Qazigund in south Kashmir to Banihal in Jammu region. Similarly, no train will chug on Srinagar-Badgam and Baramulla in north Kashmir, he said.