Islamabad: Muslims in Pakistan offered funeral prayers in absentia for Mohammad Afzal Guru—who was hanged yesterday (Saturday) for an alleged attack on the India’s parliament in 2001—in the country’s capital Islamabad.
Influential figures including Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik and Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan-administered Kashmir’s leader Abdur Rasheed Turabi were present on the occasion.
Guru’s hanging sparked clashes in Kashmir between hundreds of protesters and police who wielded batons and fired teargas to disperse the crowds.
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee rejected a mercy petition from Guru and he was hanged at 8am (0230 GMT) in Tihar jail in the capital, New Delhi.
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