India-Pakistan tensions rise over execution of Kashmiri man
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NEW DELHI (AP) - India's hanging of a Kashmiri man convicted in a terror attack is threatening to damage recently improved relations with longtime rival Pakistan.
New Delhi reacted angrily to a resolution adopted on Thursday by Pakistan's National Assembly condemning the execution last month of Mohammed Afzal Guru, who was convicted in a deadly 2001 attack on India's Parliament, accusing its neighbour of interfering in its internal affairs.
India's Parliament passed a resolution of its own on Friday, insisting the Pakistani assembly "desist from acts of support for extremist and terrorist elements."
A proposed home-and-away field hockey series between the nations' teams also was called off on Friday on the advice of India's foreign ministry.
