MUZAFFARABAD, May 4: Around 200 protesters took to the streets in Azad Kashmir on Saturday to demonstrate against an attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in India-held Jammu.

Sanaullah Ranjay was seriously injured in the assault early on Friday.

The attack came after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, convicted in Pakistan for spying and deadly bombings, died on Thursday following an attack in Kot Lakhpat prison.

Witnesses said around 200 people marched in Muzaffarabad against the attack on Ranjay. The crowds chanted slogans against India and called for `jihad` to force Indian troops out of Kashmir.

They burned the Indian flag and demanded Ranjay should be repatriated to Pakistan.

Earlier, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, head of Jamaatud Dawa, a hardline Islamist organisation blamed for terrorist attacks by India, criticised Indian Prime Minister ManmohanSingh for bestowing state honours on the dead Indian prisoner.

`We are in favour of an action against those who tortured Sarabjit Singh.

But there is no justification for Indian propaganda (on this issue),` he told AFP.

Hafiz Saeed said India should review its own acts and should not promote terrorism in Pakistan.`Sarabjit Singh admitted in the courts that he is responsible for the bomb blasts and that he was formally supported by India for these blasts. He has taken lives of so many people,` he said.

`We don`t think that torture in jail is a right thing. Nobody should take the law in [his own] hands. But there is no justification for that noise in India at this moment. India should correct its own acts.

Sarabjit Singh was convicted 16 years ago for espionage and for his involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab that killed 14 people in 1990.-AFP