Indian Kashmir on edge after terror convict hanged

Published February 10, 2013 5:00am ET



SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Most of Indian-controlled Kashmir was paralyzed Sunday as a strict curfew imposed after the execution of a Kashmiri man convicted in a deadly 2001 attack on India’s Parliament remained in effect.

Mohammed Afzal Guru was hanged in New Delhi early Saturday. Ahead of the execution, authorities ordered people in most of the Indian-held part of the disputed Kashmir region to remain indoors indefinitely in anticipation of anti-India protests.

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