SRINAGAR, Aug 8: A strike was observed in the occupied Kashmir on Monday on the call of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) to protest against the death sentence of a man convicted in the attack on Indian parliament in 2001.

India’s Supreme Court upheld a 2003 high court verdict on Thursday, sentencing Mohammad Afzal to death for conspiring an attack on the Indian Parliament building, in which five gunmen stormed into the parliament complex before being slain by the security forces.

“The strike is to call for lifting of the death sentence,” Yasin Malik, the head of the pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front said. Malik called for the complete shut down in the valley when he visited Afzal’s home town of Sopore on Friday.—AFP