ISLAMABAD: Thousands of people marched in streets across Pakistan on Wednesday to protest violence in India-administered Kashmir, Agence France-Presse journalists said, as the death toll from days of clashes between demonstrators and security forces rose to 45.

Violence erupted after Burhan Wani, commander of the region’s biggest separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen—one of several fighting Indian troops in the territory for decades—was killed during a gunbattle with government forces.

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