1.   Pakistan denies the charge, but acknowledges having influence over the militants, who are fighting to separate mainly Muslim Kashmir from Hindu-dominated India.

2.   Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf announced in a speech in January that he had banned two of the major guerrilla groups fighting to separate Kashmir from India.

3.   A dozen militant groups are fighting to separate Kashmir from India.

4.   Attacks by Islamic militants, fighting to separate Kashmir from India, have intensified during recent times.

5.   But the brutality fueled growing public anger at Pakistan and the Islamic militants fighting to separate Kashmir from predominantly Hindu India.

6.   Dozens of guerrilla groups are fighting to separate Kashmir from India or for it to merge with Pakistan.

7.   Dozens of separatist groups are fighting to separate Kashmir from India.

8.   Dozens of separatist groups are fighting to separate the state from India.

9.   India says some of the fighters who have joined the more than one dozen Islamic groups fighting to separate Kashmir from India are Pakistanis, Afghans, and Arabs.

10.   Indian officials usually attribute such attacks to Pakistan-based Islamic militants fighting to separate the Muslim-majority Kashmir region from Hindu-majority India.