By Tariq Maqbool MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-administered Kashmir (Reuters) - A former Kashmiri militant was gunned down in a mosque in Pakistan-controlled ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSMUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-administered Kashmir - A former Kashmiri militant was gunned down in a mosque in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, officials said on Friday, in what a top Islamist guerrilla leader termed a"targeted killing" - the third such death this year.
India has for decades accused Pakistan of supporting Islamist militants groups fighting for Kashmiri independence. Pakistan denies that and accuses India of supporting separatist rebels in Pakistan. Shehryar Sikandar, a senior police official in the area, said the prayer leader told police the assailant shot Riaz four times while wearing a motorcycle helmet. He said the investigation was ongoing.
He was known by locals to be associated with Jamaat-ud-Dawa , a charity organisation linked with militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba , which India says orchestrated the 2008 attack on Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.Last year, Pakistan accused India of orchestrating a bombing near the house of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of a JuD and LeT. India denied that.
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