DHAKA: Most of Indian Kashmir was under curfew on Sunday to prevent protests marking the first anniversary of the hanging of a local separatist, which fuelled anger last year in the already tense region.

Shops and other businesses were shut and traffic was light in the main city of Srinagar and other towns, as a result of the curfew and after separatist groups called a strike across the region to mark the anniversary.

Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri Muslim, was executed on February 9 last year and buried inside a prison in Delhi after being convicted over a deadly raid on the Indian parliament in 2001 that left ten people dead.

Guru always insisted he was innocent and protesters in Kashmir have often accused the police of framing him, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2017 HRS, FEB 09, 2014