How do you actually enforce a curfew order when you have got as few police as we have?

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Cable television, mobile and internet services remain blocked in most parts of Kashmir as hundreds of security forces enforce a strict curfew to prevent more violence.

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Although the army has made strong statements, warning it will use "firmness and force" to restore order and enforce a night-time curfew, it has seemed unwilling to carry out its threats.

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Today Iraqi Kurdistan is crawling with Iraqi army troops who enforce a de facto 7:30 evening curfew.

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Curfew from 6pm to 6am seems to be having little effect, because there is nobody to enforce it.

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