New | Paris gunman buried in unmarked grave as Muslims launch huge protests against Charlie Hebdo

Tens of thousands across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir took to the streets yesterday for southern Asia’s biggest protests yet against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo‘s cartoon portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.

Up to 20,000 demonstrators in the western Afghan city of Herat and 15,000 in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, burned French flags and chanted slogans calling for France’s downfall, while a smaller Pakistani protest saw an effigy of France’s President Francois Hollande set on fire.

In Srinagar, the largest city on the Indian-controlled side of the disputed region of Kashmir, police clashed with a contingent of around 3,000 demonstrators after shops and businesses were ordered to close by a leading Muslim organisation and several separatist groups.

The clashes broke out when police fired smoke canisters and shot into the air to disperse a group of protestors who began chanting “Down with Charlie Hebdo“ after emerging from mosques.

This came as one of the Paris gunmen, said to be an accomplice of the Charlie Hebdo shooters who killed 12 people, was buried in a suburban cemetery in France.