Suspected Muslim rebels have shot dead two people including an activist of a party that favours Indian rule, while Indian troops killed a militant, police say. Suspected militants gunned down Abdul Majid Rather, a local leader of India's main opposition Congress party, as he came home from a mosque in Wagoora village of the northern Baramulla district, police said.
| They like to get them when they're on their way to the mosque or coming home from the mosque... |
Rather is the fourth activist of a pro-India party to be killed in a week. Two of the other victims belonged to Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's People's Democratic Party, which rules in an alliance with Congress.
| In Islamist circles, this is known as "having a political discussion." |
Separately, suspected rebels overnight shot dead a Muslim civilian in Sonarkalipora village of the central Budgam district, said police, who did not immediately know the motive for the killing.
| Now they need motives for bumping people off? When did that start? |
Indian troops also shot dead a rebel in the northern Kupwara district, police said. |