Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir seized newspapers and shut down cable television on Saturday, aiming to quell a flare up of tensions in the region after violent protests over the killing of a separatist commander by security forces.

About 36 people have been killed and 3,100 wounded, most of them by police fire, in the worst outbreak of violence in six years in the disputed territory also claimed by India’s archrival Pakistan.

The state of Jammu and Kashmir had already imposed a curfew and blocked cellphone services to stop people from staging more street protests over the killing of 22-year-old separatist leader Burhan Wani on July 8.

“The clampdown was necessitated as Pakistani channels that are beamed here through cable television network have launched a campaign aimed at fomenting trouble here,” said a Jammu and Kashmir government minister who declined to be named. “Some newspapers were also sensationalizing the violence. . . . We will take a decision on [their] restoration after July 19.”

Abdul Rashid Mukhdoomi, printer and publisher of Kashmir valley’s largest circulated daily, Greater Kashmir, said police raided his printing press at 2 a.m. and “took away all the newspapers that were printed and the printing was also stopped.”

“We were not handed over any order under which the printing and circulation of our newspapers were stopped,” he said.

Cable TV networks across Kashmir remain shut.

Amjad Noor, owner of Site Entertainment Network, which runs a cable network in Srinagar, told Reuters that police ordered his organization to shut down operations Friday night.

Separatist leaders had called Friday for a 72-hour strike and protests against the killing of civilians. They said in a statement that they also supported Pakistan’s call to observe a “black day” on Tuesday against the killings.

Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, and most people in India’s portion resent the Indian troop presence and want independence or a merger with Pakistan. Since the 1990s, more than 68,000 people have been killed in Kashmir’s uprising against Indian rule and the subsequent Indian military crackdown.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that he was shocked by the killing of Wani and the civilians. India’s Foreign Ministry said Friday that it was dismayed by Pakistan’s attempt to “interfere in our internal matters.”