 Seven militants and a political party member were killed in Kashmir at the weekend in the latest violence ahead of the launch of an historic bus service across the divided state, a police spokesman said on Sunday. Security forces killed two militants in Baramulla district near the northern cease-fire border, known as the Line-of-Control, the spokesman said, adding five other militants were killed in Pulwama district just south of Srinagar on Sunday. "Two of the slain militants were from the hardline Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group," the spokesman said. In another incident, suspected militants on Saturday shot dead Zahoor Ahmed, an official from the state's ruling Peoples Democratic Party, in Tailbal, on the outskirts of Srinagar, he said. None of the one dozen militant groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir claimed responsibility for the killing. |