(24 Dec 2014) Supporters of a Kashmiri separatist leader clashed with police on Wednesday in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The fighting erupted as the leader of The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik and his supporters proceeded with a hunger strike against the arrest of separatists in the run up to the five-phased assembly elections.
Elections were held from 25 November to 20 December, a staggered process that allowed government forces to better guard against any violence or anti-India protests.
State elections in India decide who controls the upper house of India's Parliament.
While the lower house is significantly more powerful, the upper house can delay legislation.
Anti-India sentiment runs deep in Kashmir, where rebel groups have been fighting since 1989, seeking independence from India or the merger of the region with neighbouring Pakistan.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, but claimed by both in its entirety.
The two rivals have fought two wars over Kashmir since they won independence from Britain in 1947.
More than 68,000 people have been killed in the rebel uprising and a subsequent Indian military crackdown that has suppressed most insurgent activity.


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