SRINAGAR (Agencies) - A strike called by Kashmiri leaders in Indian-occupied Kashmir to protest against the killing of a leading cleric paralysed much of the region on Saturday. Mujahideen groups blamed the killing of Maulvi Shaukat Ahmad Shah on 'Indian agencies seeking to 'sabotage the freedom struggle of Kashmiris. No group has claimed responsibility for the explosion which killed Shah, a respected cleric and a staunch pro-freedom supporter, at a mosque in Srinagar minutes before the start of Friday prayers. Most shops, businesses, schools and offices in Srinagar and other major towns in the Held Valley were closed by the strike. Thousands of mourners accompanied the funeral procession of Shah who was buried at 'Martyrs Graveyard on Friday. Kashmiri leaders described the killing as an 'attack on the Kashmiri freedom movement. Its nothing but a conspiracy to deprive us of our religious and political leaders, said leading cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. Yaseen Malik, head of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Shahs close friend, mourned his loss. The killing has broken our back. We will expose those responsible, he said. Last summer, Held Kashmir was rocked by street protests against Indian rule that left 114 people dead - most of them shot by Indian security forces.