Police have sealed all roads leading to the venue and the hotels where members of the Bavarian State Orchestra and the diplomats invited for the concert will be staying.  The 14-km route from the city to the Mughal garden also has a large number of security personnel present.

The Dal Lake is being monitored continuously by security forces and no civilian movement is being allowed inside the lake anywhere in the radius of three km from the bank where the garden is located, a police official told.

Only guests with special passes will be able to enter the area, after being frisked and scanned by metal detectors.

Meanwhile reports of Shutdown are coming from every part of the valley.