A top Kashmir separatist rebel was shot dead in a gunbattle with Indian troops, the army said. “Mushtaq Ahmed Bhat was killed during a gunbattle after the army had laid multiple ambushes for him near the southern Kashmir town of Tral,” army spokesman Vijay Batra told AFP on Sunday. Batra said that Bhat was a “district commander” of the region’s most powerful rebel group, the Hizbul Mujahedin. “He was south Kashmir’s most dreaded militant and responsible for many blasts.” Full Story