Top militant commander arrested in India

A top militant commander blamed for 25 attacks and tourist killings has been arrested in India’s portion of Kashmir, in a major setback for the separatist rebels, police said today.

Mudassir, believed to be the chief planner of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, was arrested in Jammu-Kashmir, India’s only Muslim majority state, according to the state’s director-general of police, Gopal Sharma.