 Indian police say they have killed a senior member of the Pakistan-based Islamic militant group Lashkar-e Taiba, near the northern city of Srinagar. A police spokesman says the dead man is Abu Talha, who had been accused of masterminding a massacre of 35 Hindus in Kashmir last year. There was no immediate comment from Lashkar-e Taiba, which has carried out a series of suicide attacks across Kashmir over the past eight years. India's authorities say violence in Kashmir has decreased since the launch of a peace process with Pakistan in 2004, but say daily shootings and occasional bomb attacks continue. |