NEW DELHI, Jan 17 (1996): Indian police have arrested a prominent Kashmiri militant, wanted in connection with a 1990 murder and suspected of planning terrorist attacks in the Indian capital, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said on Wednesday.
The news agency said Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, a self-styled deputy chief of the Ikwhan-ul-Muslimeen group, was arrested at his hideout in the south Delhi neighbourhood of Lajpat Nagar.
Mir was wanted in connection with the abduction and killing of Professor Mushirul Haq, vice chancellor of Kashmir University, in April 1990, PTI quoted Special Branch Deputy Police Commissioner B.S. Bola as saying.
Mir was arrested in 1992 but escaped in September 1993, police said.
Ikwhan-ul-Muslimeen is one of dozens of guerrilla groups fighting a separatist revolt in the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir. Police and hospitals say more than 20,000 people have died in the six-year-old rebellion.
