Most of Kashmir under curfew imposed by India

As a result of the Sunday curfew and following calls by separatist groups across the region for strike on the anniversary, shops and other businesses were closed and traffic was light in the major city of Srinagar and a number of other towns. 
 
Kashmiri Muslim leader Mohammed Afzal Guru was executed on February 9, 2013, and buried inside a prison in Delhi after being convicted of involvement in a deadly raid on the Indian parliament in 2001 that left ten people dead.
 
Guru insisted on his innocence, while protesters in Kashmir have often accused the Indian police authorities of framing him.
 
Meanwhile, fearing the anniversary will reignite major protest rallies, Indian authorities have shut down mobile Internet services in populated areas, and thousands of police and paramilitary forces were patrolling most roads, according to police sources.
 
Political groups opposed to Indian rule in the Himalayan region have called for a three-day strike from Sunday to press their demand for the return of Guru’s remains to his family.
 
Predominantly Muslim Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both.
 
About a dozen groups have been fighting Indian forces since 1989 for independence. The fighting has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead.
 
Ahead of the anniversary of Guru’s execution, Indian police cracked down on separatists, detaining more than 200 activists from across the Kashmir valley, according to separatists and an unnamed police source.